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Chemistry is one of these crazy things you can't teach or learn or you can't fake. You go in hoping it will work, hope that you will connect with the other actors. I was fortunate on 'Modern Family' and 'The Procession.' They are great people, very easy to like. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. -- Mark Twain
It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner. -- Vernon A. Walters
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. -- Mark Twain
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon. -- Kate Chopin
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march. -- Kate Chopin
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. -- George Eliot
The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops. -- Douglas Brinkley
I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father. -- Alexi Giannoulias
I can write most places. I particularly like writing on trains. Being between places is quite liberating, and looking out of the window, watching a procession of landscapes and random-ish objects, is very good for stories. -- Susanna Clarke
As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns. -- Mary Antin
The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers. -- Erich Maria Remarque
I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings. -- Sheri L. Dew
You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession. -- John Huston
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television; before long, there was this procession of people of all kinds walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound. -- Tom Wolfe
Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat. -- George William Russell
The whole past is the procession of the present. -- Thomas Carlyle
Theology must have the character of a living procession. -- Karl Barth
Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries. -- Rex Stout
What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior. -- Robert Ardrey
All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion. -- Walt Whitman
No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries ... -- Jack Spicer
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. -- Desmond Tutu
From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession. -- Ananda Coomaraswamy
A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience. -- Rebecca Solnit
Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person. -- Diana Wynne Jones
A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession. -- Saint Francis de Sales
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle. -- Heinrich Heine
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession. -- Mark Twain
I sat in the dark and thought: There's no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones. -- Neil Gaiman
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession." -- Mark Twain
We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow. -- Emily Dickinson
God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one. -- Florence Nightingale
Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination. -- W. W. Sawyer
Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines. -- O. Henry
A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded. -- Charles Fort
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about. -- James A. Baldwin
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable. -- Emile M. Cioran
I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession. -- Edith Wharton
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance. -- Horace Mann
We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us... -- Marge Piercy
America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers. -- W. P. Kinsella
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The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction. -- Mark Twain
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. -- Virginia Woolf
I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father." -- Alexi Giannoulias
Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by. -- Mark Twain
A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put. -- Bernard Ramm
"¦ Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing! -- Gustave Flaubert
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ. -- Mark Twain
I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession. -- Bruce Barton
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. -- John le Carre

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