Don Marquis Famous Quotes & Sayings

He glosses over and doesn't even tell the truth ... Here is a guy who is the ultimate flip-flopper running for president, and he's attacking me for not being principled? That doesn't wash. — Rick Santorum

When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another. — Jackson Katz

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves. — Paracelsus

Contrary to what people may say, there's no upper limit to stupidity. — Stephen Colbert

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment. — Bret Easton Ellis

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it. — Bob Newhart

Science is actually, I think, a very creative venture. It requires thinking outside of the box. It requires an ability to be open to new experiences and an ability to change course in the middle, try a different path, or go about things in a new way. — Cara Santa Maria

admiration was closed to love. — Sena Jeter Naslund

Let us take our tongues and stick them out and waggle them in the wind. Let us walk, loving, let us walk and love, walking along, loving. — Meia Geddes

It's not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That's life. I have feelings. — Mariah Carey

These reasonings do not cohere: I am richer than you, therefore I am better than you; I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better than you. On the contrary these rather cohere, I am richer than you, therefore my possessions are greater than yours: I am more eloquent than you, therefore my speech is superior to yours. But you are neither possession nor speech. — Epictetus

Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

American mind a wilderness of opportunities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it! — Maddie Hasson

But I didn't think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that's the way it turned out. So I guess there are lots of paradoxes which I'll leave for other people to unscramble. — Bill Reid