Dr Melillo Quotes & Sayings

I write novellas, short books, whatever. I set out to write a good story not write a dictionary. — Jason E. Hodges

The new pornography would combine sexual excitement with an interest in other human ideals. The usual animalistic categories and hackneyed plots, replete with stock characters seemingly incapable of coherent speech, would give way to pornographic images and scenarios based aorund such qualities as intelligence (showing people reading or wandering the stacks in libraries), kindness (people performing oral sex on one another with an air of sweetness and regard) or humility (people caught looking embarrassed, shy or self-conscious). — Alain De Botton

I said I loved her. That was when all the problems started — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul. — Gary Zukav

The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on. — Paul Westerberg

Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical texts. There is no harmless dreaming, no wise speculation in it, but everywhere a substratum of good sense. It never reflects, but it repents. There is no poetry in it, we may say, nothing regarded in the light of beauty merely, but moral truth is its object. All mortals are convicted by its conscience. — Henry David Thoreau

I stood staring at this man, who accepted me fully, and it dawned on me for the very first time, he might be a better person than I was. I'd picked apart every action he'd ever made and weighed it by my scale of correct and incorrect, while he simply accepted me for everything I was. — Donna Augustine