Karenblixen Quotes & Sayings

Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start. — John C. Maxwell

I demand of you a thousand pardons, monsieur. I am without defence. For some months now I cultivate the marrows. This morning suddenly I enrage myself with these marrows. I send them to promenade themselves - alas! not only mentally but physically. I seize the biggest. I hurl him over the wall. Monsieur, I am ashamed. I prostrate myself. — Agatha Christie

People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it. — W. Somerset Maugham

Her heart had been lost for five years looking for a rhythm that only he could play. — Bella Andre

ugly little things aren't the? — Michael Crichton

I turned to the animal world from the world of men; my heart was heavy with the tragedy of the night. — Karen Blixen

when I compare with them so many other nations that are still making new laws, and yet can never bring their constitution to a right regulation; where, notwithstanding every one has his property, yet all the laws that they can invent have not the power either to obtain or preserve it, or even to enable men certainly to distinguish what is their own from what is another's, of which the many lawsuits that every day break out, and are eternally depending, give too plain a demonstration - when, — Thomas More

Rev it High. Rev it low. I'm strong, committed, and ready to go! — Brett Hoebel

My middle name is Marshall. A lot of people think it's a stage name, but it's not. — Trevor St. John

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound. — Ed Koch

There isn't anything weird about my music. — Frank Zappa

Styxx was damned and happiness never came to the damned. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

There are moments in the life of old liars who have been play-acting all their lives when they are so carried away by the part they're playing that they actually do weep and tremble with excitement, in spite of the fact that at that very moment (or second later) they could have whispered to themselves: 'you're lying, you shameless old fool! Now, too, you're just acting a part in spite of all your "sacred" wrath and "sacred" moment of your wrath.' Dmitry frowned threateningly and looked at his father with indescribable contempt. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws. — Rick Wise

Mathematics is the second most exciting thing. — Clayton Joyce

Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain. — Jack Kerouac