James Marriott Quotes & Sayings

Humility is the conscious awareness and acceptance of eternity as your body. — Frederick Lenz

A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal - of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania - but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place. Animals are far more flexible than we realize. IF they weren't, they wouldn't have survived. But my opinion about zoos came after research. Initially I had the opinion that most people have, that they are jails. — Yann Martel

Nobody approves of the ballerina and the poor boy. — Nichele Reese

Shortly after this exchange my roommate suggested we start throwing water balloons at the construction workers. Not really at them because, I know, I know, it's not their fault. But believe me, it's hard to look down and see a man with a seven-speed power drill plowing through a brick wall and tell yourself he's not responsible for the noise. — Sloane Crosley

None of us have much time. And yet you act as if things were eternal - the way you fear and long for them. ... Before long, darkness. And whoever buries you mourned in their turn. — Marcus Aurelius

Chase leaned on the table, staring Sammy straight in the eye. "If you ever, ever try to harm my mate again, in any way, no matter how indirectly, I will find you. — Zoe Chant

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued. — Brian P. Cleary

Assume that you live in a town with two hospitals - one large, the other small. On a given day 60 percent of those born in one of the two hospitals are boys. Which hospital is it likely to be? — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me. — George A. Romero

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it. — Murray Gell-Mann

You are the trembling of time, that passes
between vertical light and darkened sky, — Pablo Neruda