Chris Priestley Quotes

'Give me a funeral over a wedding any day,.' said Uncle Montague with a sigh. 'The conversation is almost always superior.'

Chris Priestley

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• There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Fashion

• Silence is also conversation.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Silence
  • Conversation
  • Also

• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
  • Real

• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nothing
  • Conversation

• I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Idea
  • Wrong
  • Conversation

• Love is the funeral of hearts.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Hearts

• I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Great
  • Conversation

• I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Like
  • Wedding
  • Queen

• Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Fear
  • Place
  • Funeral

• An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Relationship
  • Conversation
  • Difficulty

• 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Old
  • Conversation
  • Looking

• I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Home
  • Parents

• My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Looks
  • Rain
  • Face

• Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • Life
  • Me

• Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • People
  • Church
  • Strange

• One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Work
  • Me
  • Funeral

• Why did she have to wake up this morning? Or ever! But especially this morning. Her stare took on a glint of panic. Then she thought: Oh! This is my wedding day!

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Up
  • Why
  • She

• Dealing with wedding stuff is a bit of a double-edged sword - it seems that divorcees are expected to either burn it all on the front lawn, tears silently coursing down their faces, or keep the stuff, shrine-like, concealed somewhere in their homes.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Tears
  • Wedding

• I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.

  

  Clayton Snyder
  • Conversation
  • Stranger
  • Antics

• Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Business
  • Risk
  • Philanthropy

• I'm a very stereotypical person... and that's part of my flavor, I guess, because I tell it like it is.

  

  Patti Stanger

• If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• 'Give me a funeral over a wedding any day,.' said Uncle Montague with a sigh. 'The conversation is almost always superior.'

  

  Chris Priestley
  • Conversation
  • Wedding
  • Funeral