Herb Myers Quotes & Sayings

It's one thing to go into a fight knowing you'll probably lose. Quite another to be told that to win, you must offer up your throat to be slit. — Darren Shan

How still,
How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.

~ "Sea Calm — Langston Hughes

Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told. — Ginger Rogers

I won't deny that I haven't been this vulnerable for a long time, it scares me ~ all of it, love, emotion and connection but I've reached a point in my life that I now know this type of love doesn't knock often and when it does, maybe it's time to open the door. — Nikki Rowe

It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money. — Alan Kotok

I was glad to get out of my house, for any reason, even if the reason involved grave robbing. — Kami Garcia

It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here. — William Randolph Hearst

The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

~quoted in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 — Henry A. Wallace

As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions. — James E. Faust

Just someone trying to shoot in 70mm deserves the nomination, and he[Quentin Tarantino] is shooting interiors, like tight interior shots, for that matter. Obviously [Quentin] is the director and demanding the shots, but all credit for the beauty of that film [Hateful Eight] goes to the director of photography. — Bun B.

I shudder to tell that many of our people, harassed by the madness of excessive hunger, cut pieces from the buttocks of the Saracens already dead there, which they cooked, but when it was not yet roasted enough by the fire, they devoured it with savage mouth — Edward M. Peters

I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism. — Julian Assange

You can't plan for what you can't see, so be gentle with your dreams! — Anuranjita Kumar