Demarshell Quotes & Sayings

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public. — Ada Leverson

We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball. — Nikesh Shukla

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism. — Sarah McLachlan

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. — Jose Marti

It's not what you're not sure of that gets you: It's when you just know it's okay, and you don't check. — S.J. Lewis

I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening ... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science. — Jack Germond

I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people. — Jeff Koons

If the question was did we want to delay the revelation? ... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit. — William Mapother

Ruger liked a touch of pain, I decided, so I did my best to crush him with my inner muscles. I'm generous that way. — Joanna Wylde

As she lies in the bed she weeps, for Bing, for the melting, shimmering candles, the filigree on the holiday tablecloth. She is an unwilling astronaut, bumping against the thick glass of the ship, her line tangling lazily in zero gravity, face mask fogged with fear. My sister reaches across, over the bed, and we both embrace the mother, holding her on earth, pulling her onto the ship, breathing our oxygen into her line. Ten hours later she is dead. — Jo Ann Beard

It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader. — John C. Maxwell

It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back. — Bear Bryant

Sleep is good. Books are better. — George R R Martin

I don't smoke, drink alcohol well, or play games. But I watch dramas. It is hard to quit. — Yoseob