I feel like my career has been a series of glowing…

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

— Steve Guttenberg

My life and my career have been a series of happy and not so happy accidents.

— Jeff Ross

My career has been a series of breaking through barriers.

— Leslie Uggams

My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.

— Bill Paxton

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.”

— Clarence Darrow

“More than half of the obituaries are that of delight.”

— Mantaranjot Mangat

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're…

— Marilyn Johnson

I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization…

— Tao Lin

It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.

— Evan Esar

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

— Smriti Irani

I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

— Mark Twain

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

— Clarence Darrow

“I used to read the obituaries to gloat over all the people I've outlived, but now I don't think it matters, we all live…

— Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

— Maira Kalman

Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

— Mason Cooley