Mabley Place Quotes & Sayings

Welcome to our camp!" Blackstar called, beckoning them with his tail. "Rest here and take your pick of the fresh-kill pile."
"Who are you and what have you done with Blackstar?" Lionblaze muttered. — Erin Hunter

Ethics are more important than laws. — Wynton Marsalis

When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section. — Linda Ellerbee

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer. — Anthony Bourdain

I hate to think of the day when nobody remembers me as an actor and I can't get good tables in restaurants. — Paul Henreid

But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women she had been met - the Yaichkan and the Leningrader and the chyerti maiden; the girl who saw the birds, and the girl who never did - the woman she was and the woman she might have been and the woman she would always be, forever intersecting and colliding, a thousand birds falling from a thousand oaks, over and over. — Catherynne M Valente

Too many of us feel that we have to be perfect, in order to be loved. — Crystal Renn

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard. — Shakira

The worst mistake I ever made has become the best thing I ever did.

- Darius Wainwright — Jayne Fresina

Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas as well as Pope or Browning but then be so musical that other poems approach pure sound. — Christian Wiman

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again? — Dee Remy

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. — Jim Dietz

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship. — Joseph C. Lincoln

Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part. — Mahmud Shabistari

Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi