Br Mmerhoff Quotes & Sayings

But even now, a full century after he wrote his first school poem, scratched out in startlingly plain words on onion skin paper with a number two pencil, his heart and soul remain as fresh and brave as ever. Hemingway lives. — Clancy Sigal

No, in the Bolitar household, the kitchen was more a gathering place - a Family Room Lite, if you will - than anything related to even the basest of the culinary arts. The round table held magazines and catalogs and congealing white boxes of Chinese takeout. The stove top saw less action than a Merchant-Ivory production. The oven was a prop, strictly for show, like a politician's Bible. — Harlan Coben

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it. — Jean Grou

I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising. — M.J. Rose

But when the fire was about to quench, their children came with whips and stones then they began to whip and stone our heads; when they left that, they began to climb on our heads and jump from one to the second; after that they started to spit, make urine and pass excreta on our heads; but when the eagle saw that they wanted to nail our heads, then it drove all of them away from the field with its beak. — Amos Tutuola

Ladies are honest. They're my motivation. They know what's funny, and the dudes just follow. — Tracy Morgan

Like what?" "Like this. I can feel you like beaming anxiety at me. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Suddenly, Kaiser Corbane came outta nowhere! They thought they were safe! THEY WERE WRONG! — Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson

You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving. — Samuel Butler

A lot of people may not know this but I'm quite famous. — Sam Malone