#mort

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#america #become #book #criminal #i

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.' ↗

— David Johansen

#continue #cut #even #exist #feeling

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. ↗

— James Joyce

#busy #centuries #enigmas #i #immortality

When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#believe #bought #characters #funny #guy

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman. ↗

— Leon Kass

#equally #itself #man #means #mortality

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. ↗

— John Keats

#fears #follow #immortality #lead #voices

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#eternal #i #immortal #most #people

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#ever #experience #had #i #life

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ↗

— James Thurber

#any #beliefs #certain #dogs #few

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#chose #human #i #immortality #mortality