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[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
History: a collection of epitaphs.
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.
[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.
People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'
Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.
[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.
My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.
If I were to have an epitaph, I'd want it to read, 'She did stuff.'
Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.
'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.
I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
Let my epitaph be, "Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook."
Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself.
That might be my epitaph: 'It wasn't as bad as I thought. Here lies Phil Lord.'
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'
Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.
Epitaph is the place to be! They were all longtime, true fans of New Found Glory and they understand us.
I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.
I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
I know it will be the thing that'll be my epitaph: They won't say anything about my movies, I'll be this guy in a rubber mask.
If I were to write my epitaph... Epitaph? Hey, shut-up Albert. I'd want to be remembered as someone who loved his sport and tried his best.
Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
When they write my epitaph, it's going to say, 'Innate Immunotherapeutics, saving millions of lives.' It's not going to be 'member of Congress.'
I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.' Also that I'm a nice person... and a good mother.
One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.
I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.
A few years ago, I actually did come up with a mocking sort of epitaph for myself. It's this: 'Here lies Robert Silverberg. He spent most of his life in the future. Now he's in the past.'
In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph. Tribes were wiped out by disease and massacres; languages and songs were obliterated.
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin.
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
Josephine Baker is such an iconic woman that once you've touched her and she has touched you, it never goes away. I'm stuck with her. I'm sure 50 years from now, when they write my obituary, they will mention that I played Josephine Baker. It'll be on my epitaph.