You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

I wouldn't want my funeral to be a sad, sappy thing.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.

I don't go to racers' funerals.

We experienced a miscarriage at 13 weeks and then a few years later we lost our son Willem at 30 weeks. I held him in my arms and had to organise his funeral.

I went to Jimmy Gandolfini's funeral, and when I was there, I realized Jimmy Gandolfini didn't have Twitter.

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.

I cry at births and not at funerals.

A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.

I've been a fascinated observer of grand public funerals since I was a kid, starting with the life-altering black-and-white images of President John F. Kennedy's funeral.

A man is known by his works. That I have heard at many a funeral.

When I was 14, during Kim Il-sung's funeral, I wondered, 'How could a god die?'

We don't do funerals in my family.

'Selfie' is the word du jour, and it became cause celebre at Nelson Mandela's funeral when the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a selfie with U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.

I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.

Love is the funeral of hearts.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.