He had problems remembering names. There was a lot of humor about that at his funeral.
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There was a lot of pressure on us remembering we had lost Maryland before.
CAMILLE LITTLE As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sen...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY I had a lot of problems like this when I was at Jaguar and today was his turn, it happens,
ANTONIO PIZZONIA I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it w...
JOHN WELLS He had a very exciting career and a wonderful sense of humor that he shared with his family. He did ...
DARLENE JACKSON He was a good guy. He was very good at what he did. He had a good sense of humor.
JEFFREY SKILLING I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.
SAM TRAMMELL I'm, like, really bad at remembering names.
DASHA ZHUKOVA While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing mus...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA There was a mixture there and it was a rather pleasant mixture, and I think it helped him a lot in t...
MICHAEL PALIN [Quin also blamed Wood's reticence about his health problems on the social setting of the interview,...
DOUGLAS WOOD He looked up as the party emerged and nickered a soft hello to his master, who was dressed in an unf...
JOHN FLANAGAN When Christopher got his license it had the organ donation on the back. My husband is a retired fire...
SANDY NELSON Now, does everyone understand why we got rid of Travis Henry? ... The guy had a drug problem, and we...
MIKE MULARKEY The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had t...
JIMMY BRESLIN He had a wonderful, wry sense of humor and was very independent and very devoted to his wife and his...
LILLIAN HANSEN That was when you began to hear a lot more about his drinking. And that was when his back flared up ...
ERNEST CLARK I cannot put into words how happy I was to have had the opportunity to be around him as much as I wa...
OSSIE DAVIS The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN [Williams] had a great fourth quarter. He made second-team All-County and All-TCL [but] there is no ...
JAY AIRHART I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
STEVEN WRIGHT He (Williams) played with a lot of confidence.
BARRY SMITH When I was a true freshman (at Texas), I had Ricky Williams and he took a hell of a lot of pressure ...
MAJOR APPLEWHITE Horace’s pulse was racing and adrenaline was surging into his system. But he showed no sign of it....
JOHN FLANAGAN There was a lot of speculation about Koppel replacing him. Peter grew into the job and the network a...
BOB ZELNICK He talked to me a lot about problems he was having. Sometimes he was just depressed. He hated Hollyw...
FRANK MINUCCI Halt waited a minute or two but there was no sound except for the jingling of harness and the creaki...
JOHN FLANAGAN Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.
JOE GRANT If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It was a very hard battle because he had a lot of medical issues and side effects. He was very limit...
DEBORAH FORBIS [The father of Sarah Williams, a Scottsbluff, Nebraska, woman, had four tickets on the 45-yard line ...
SARAH WILLIAMS And, ... I was a little bit pensive, not unlike Ricky Williams. I understand, I think, some of what ...
JOHN RIGGINS But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a ...
MARK WALLACE It was recognized about 20 years ago that the building had many problems. There was no structural st...
LEROY RADANOVICH We're going to play the song that we wrote for him. It's about Jared and the life he lived. We playe...
CORY MOORE I thought he was very much interested in talking about his problems rather than the problems of the ...
COLIN WOOD He had seen the plane and knew what he was getting into. It says a lot about his character.
DAVID HAGEN A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was ...
KATY MIXON He had high energy. He approached that campaign like it was his first one. I saw him at parades, at ...
DENNIS SULLIVAN The team owner, Frank Rogers, is in shock, very surprised and stunned, as are all of us. He was ther...
JAMES MALONE Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after Will. He ad...
JOHN FLANAGAN I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of...
JEFF BRIDGES [Ruebhausen] was a belt and suspenders person he was a lawyer who thought through all his options bu...
DAVID ROBINSON I guess we had talked about his background and questioned him about Medicare. He said he had no prob...
LAWRENCE STORY It seemed like he was getting a lot of [expletive] for that, just being out there. It didn't seem li...
CARL TRUMAN Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mot...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH He'd been ill for about a year. He was a heavy drinker and smoker and he had problems with his heart...
CRAIG REID He was a good friend, maintaining his sense of humor and proportion throughout the difficult period ...
JOHN PAUL STEVENS For Greg, there was questions about his speed but he solved that at the combine.
BILL CUBIT Brian really kicked back on his own when Amanda was a baby. We had a long talk about it, and he was ...
ERIKA SLEZAK He had a honey hole there where he was catching some nice fish. He didn't catch a lot, but his fish ...
JIMMY WALKER There was conversation and discussion at the table, a lot of it heated. He had a strong belief that ...
ANNE SWEENEY Burgoyne, he had style, a certain charisma, and charm and humor about him.
JOHN BURNHAM And at that moment, Thibaut knew he was a murderer. He had murdered his brother that night; he had t...
C. JOYBELL C. He might have had some jitters early, but overall he gave us some great innings. His stuff was good....
DON LEITZEL Jack Broughton was a fighter, the father of boxing. He had a fondness for flowers and his sister nam...
EMMA RICHLER Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end ...
JOHN GREEN If they double shot him (Williams) and send plenty of work his way he may struggle at times.
BRIAN MCCLENNAN A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest...
MARVIN SAPP There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never ...
H. L. MENCKEN Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels.
DAKIN WILLIAMS I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of t...
CHRIS COOPER Undoubtedly, he knew a lot about offense. His record speaks for itself. I heard about a year ago whe...
HORACE WILLIAMS He was signing a lot of autographs and doing a lot of interviews. But when he finally came out of th...
KEVIN KELLY I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. About a politician ...
MARK TWAIN I like the way he runs he gets yards. He knows the offense. He's a lot like Carnell (Williams). H...
EDDIE GRAN Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. ...
EMANUEL CELLER When he did his monologues, it was always about the public and what was happening, right up before a...
DON RICKLES Does it matter?" Halt asked.
Horace shrugged. "Not really, I suppose. I just wondered why you'...
JOHN FLANAGAN He said, 'I still got a lot of fight in me, and this isn't the end of the line,' ... And that's very...
TOM SELLECK I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was ...
BETTY HILL I think Ricky Williams had his time in the limelight. And I think it was good for what it was worth,...
RICKY WILLIAMS One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor tha...
HAROLD HOLZER Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh a...
HAROLD HOLZER A lot of people have written Zimbabwe cricket off with the problems they've had, but there is still ...
ANDY PYCROFT When the Williams sisters came into tennis, there was so much rampant racism that it was unbelievabl...
EARL SMITH There was just no good way for a dead son to greet his mother almost two weeks after his funeral.
RACHEL VINCENT God had a sense of humor, a style of his own.
JACK MURPHY There's a lot of trepidation out there about earnings, ... A lot of times, the complexion of markets...
ART HOGAN He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like ...
STEPHEN KING I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor...
J. B. SMOOVE Making out with Divine, that's beyond the bravery of coming out. He was hassled about being gay. You...
JOHN WATERS In faded leathers and boots, he sure wasn't a clotheshorse like Antonio, and he was sure a lot bigge...
CHERISE SINCLAIR Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Che...
WAYLON JENNINGS That first round was a great win for Eli. That was a great win to have at the end of his senior year...
MIKE BLAKE There was a lot of discussion in that room about, Will
he advance the conservative agenda?
JACK KINGSTON I thought it was terrible. I don't know who to believe. Williams was very loyal and honest. Nobody c...
CURT GOWDY A lot of gospel artists knew who he was. If he wasn't at home relaxing, he was playing his bass.
DARIEN MICKENS He started talking about his wife and how she was taking advantage of him, spending his money, ... H...
GARY MCLARTY He was looking at me like I was a very nice thing of his that wasn't working quite like it should, l...
CATHERINE LACEY It was a lot of pressure. He was having a couple of health problems. His skin was breaking out. Afte...
DAN BOUCHARD He's got a lot of problems. He lost a kidney, suffered a stroke and he's losing his eyesight.
BARRY BACHRACH The committee we put together looked at the 21-point criteria that was used, and the points were ver...
HEIDI JOHNSON C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But...
ROY L. PICKERING JR. They should free his remains. I'm a huge fan of Ted Williams. When I was a kid, the first bat I got ...
DANIEL EDWARDS The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.
JOHN GREEN But it's also got a lot of humor. My attraction to it [the show] was that, not only was it smart and...
BRETT RATNER My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he h...
STEPHEN KING He was on his belly and I had my legs in. I just hipped in and it was there. I didn't really feel a ...
KURT BACKES You take a look at that run of Tony Hunt's and you see how (Williams) literally just busted his butt...
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HORACE WILLIAMS It's great to have the opportunity to be able to come to Diboll and work with the community and work...
HORACE WILLIAMS Undoubtedly, he knew a lot about offense. His record speaks for itself. I heard about a year ago whe...
HORACE WILLIAMS We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can ret...
HORACE Don't think, just do.
HORACE Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
HORACE Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
HORACE The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Wh...
HORACE A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
HORACE Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make m...
HORACE One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by differ...
HORACE You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and do...
HORACE Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as ga...
HORACE He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HORACE Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
HORACE A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with th...
HORACE Labor diligently to increase your property.
HORACE Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who...
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
HORACE Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. HORACE Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
HORACE I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
HORACE One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
HORACE Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
HORACE You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers...
HORACE The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
HORACE One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instr...
HORACE Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
HORACE Tear thyself from delay.
HORACE Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
HORACE How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which c...
HORACE Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
HORACE While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
HORACE Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.
HORACE Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
HORACE It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
HORACE You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
HORACE What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
HORACE Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless...
HORACE I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
HORACE It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
HORACE Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
HORACE Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
HORACE Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting nigh...
HORACE You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
HORACE Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
HORACE The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted ...
HORACE Anger is a brief lunacy.
HORACE Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
HORACE Anger is short madness
HORACE My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be short.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
HORACE As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
HORACE Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
HORACE A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fort...
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
HORACE The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
HORACE We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
HORACE Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
HORACE Every old poem is sacred.
HORACE Poets wish to profit or to please.
HORACE No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
HORACE The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
HORACE A picture is a poem without words.
HORACE Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
HORACE I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
HORACE How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
HORACE When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
HORACE He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving ot...
HORACE Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HORACE Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
HORACE To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fe...
HORACE A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
HORACE Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
HORACE He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
HORACE Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they wi...
HORACE The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the light...
HORACE He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
HORACE We are free to yield to truth.
HORACE Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity ...
HORACE Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up,...
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the fro...
HORACE Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
HORACE A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE There is nothing assured to mortals.
HORACE This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are a...
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
HORACE I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
HORACE What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
HORACE I teach that all men are mad.
HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
HORACE The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
HORACE Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to t...
HORACE Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
HORACE I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
HORACE The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poe...
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
HORACE Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
HORACE He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
HORACE In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns up...
HORACE Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
HORACE Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction a...
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain d...
HORACE Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)
HORACE In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
HORACE Buy the rumor and sell the fact
HORACE No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slo...
HORACE The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at
HORACE It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and...
HORACE Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of w...
HORACE He who is greedy is always in want.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
HORACE In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
HORACE Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
HORACE Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the ...
HORACE Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, be...
HORACE It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE The pen is the tongue of the mind.
HORACE Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dor...
HORACE Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
HORACE Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he ...
HORACE The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous ...
HORACE Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HORACE Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
HORACE Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be brief.
HORACE Those that are little, little things suit.
HORACE They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
HORACE Make a good use of the present.
HORACE To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
HORACE Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come a...
HORACE The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE The covetous man is ever in want.
HORACE Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
HORACE Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
HORACE It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
HORACE He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
HORACE There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right canno...
HORACE The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
HORACE Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
HORACE Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
HORACE I will not add another word.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out be...
HORACE Faults are soon copied.
HORACE In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HORACE In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
HORACE A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doi...
HORACE The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
HORACE It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
HORACE Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
HORACE A word once uttered can never be recalled.
HORACE Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
HORACE There is measure in all things.
HORACE With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
HORACE Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
HORACE Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
HORACE You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented m...
HORACE Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.
HORACE The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
HORACE Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
HORACE It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
HORACE I shall not altogether die.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze
HORACE Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.
HORACE Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.
HORACE