Chris Mercer Quotes & Sayings

Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems. — Neil Armstrong

I'd always loved hip-hop. — Justin Broadrick

We (women) are a powerful force, but it is not our fists that propel us, it is our minds and wiles. — Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity. — Mary Shelley

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart. — Marvin Olasky

These are the people we elected and if we are not satisfied we should get new candidates. It is in our hands. It is our country. It is a very simplistic view that politicians are to blame for everything. — Robert Stanfield

In the preface to my Plays for Puritans I explained the predicament of our contemporary English drama, forced to deal almost exclusively with cases of sexual attraction, and yet forbidden to exhibit the incidents of that attraction or even to discuss its nature. Your suggestion that I should write a Don Juan play was virtually a challenge to me to treat this subject myself dramatically. The challenge was difficult enough to be worth accepting, because, when you come to think of it, though we have plenty — George Bernard Shaw

The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea.

I always chose the sea. — Katherine McIntyre

At any rate, they were strange fellows, these bohemians. They lounged around doing nothing and told you they were working; they were frightfully miserable and yet would tell you that they were perfectly happy. They had more troubles than others but seemed to bear them better, as if they fed on suffering. — Dezso Kosztolanyi

I knew you better than anyone else. I was sure of it. — David Levithan

Mom, how come you never go outside?"
"I told you, I'm a vampire. — Alison Bechdel

As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster. — Seymour Cray

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure. — Roger Michell

The most important days in your life are the day you were born ... and the day you find out why. — Mark Twain

It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts. — Steve Maraboli