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

• '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

• DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview, and you realize that you have to cut it out if you don't want to be answering questions about that.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Art
  • Respect
  • Wedding

• Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Change
  • Choice

• I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.

  

  Ken Buck
  • Church
  • Prayer

• A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Happens
  • Advance
  • Synthesis

• I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.

  

  B. B. King
  • Trying
  • Home
  • Down

• Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • World
  • Better

• '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