Derrel Maury Quotes & Sayings

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli. — Mario Bunge

Consider the biggest animals on the planet: elephants, and buffaloes, and giraffes. These are vegetarian animals. They grow to thousands of pounds of muscle and bone without ever eating cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizzas. — Michael Klaper

One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing
being a data bank
and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book. — Peter Greenaway

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. — Chuck Palahniuk

I may not remember anything about her, but I would bet her smile was my favorite part of her — Colleen Hoover

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher. — Antonio Tabucchi

There's this scene in "The Night of the Hunter" when the kids are downstairs, and you have the feeling that they're both in a room and at the same time it looks remote. And you wonder, How can you give the effect of both "inside" and "outside" at the same time. And you realize, by watching it many times, that around the scene there's this black edging. — Marjane Satrapi

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita — Maxine

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state. — Laura Mvula

The teenage lead singer counted off, and the band launched into a hot version of "Ooh, My Head," the old Ritchie Valens song - and not really so old in the summer of '61, although Valens had been dead for almost two years. — Stephen King