Laters On The Menjay Quotes & Sayings

Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children. — Noah Lukeman

We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis. — Milton Friedman

I could still feel the chain that anchored me to Matthew, witch to vampire. — Deborah Harkness

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains. — Hippolyte Taine

Music's the medicine of the mind. — John A. Logan

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow. — William Dean Howells

What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies? — Ronald Reagan

The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently. — E. M. Forster

Julia's heart nearly cracked under the weight of her realization that her love had not healed him. — Sylvain Reynard

Whoa! Hey, what are you doing?
I'm attaching myself to you. Because I'm a kid.
Spoil me. — Peach-Pit

Most of us aren't very graceful about not having our needs met, when and how we want them met. — Michael Ventura

I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes are exaggerated for a theatric stage - you're on a stage you have an audience of 2500 or 3000 people: you need to project the feelings, the emotions it's heightened, and people mistake it for a personal anger but it's more dissatisfaction, disappointment and contempt for these things we've settled for. — George Carlin

We can change our own life and ultimately change the world. — Kristi Bowman

Every person in therapy has a love disorder. — John Dufresne