Mainer Quotes & Sayings

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket. — Imogen Cunningham

Love: a hybrid emotion made up of various other emotions collaged by some weak individual's mind to try to quell a particular horror that's not been wiped out by more standardized symbols like Christ, etc. Nietzsche, right? Whatever. — Dennis Cooper

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter. — Dennis Rodman

The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him. — Emma Curtis Hopkins

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace. — Richard Louv

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff. — Mike Myers

Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.
Source: Esquire Magazine, June 2000 original edition — Julia Child

I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal. — Ellen Pompeo

When it's family, Nick, there's a limit to the shit I'll eat. But there is no limit to the love I'll give. — Kristen Ashley

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. — Red Auerbach

When the Lord relieves you of that un wanted affliction. Then it is time to serve Him without restriction. — Nathan Jones

I think I could get addicted to this," she said, lying naked underneath him.
He dropped his head to her breast. "You are the only peace I've known in decades."
Abbey laughed. "I'm sure you say that to all the girls."
"No." He rose over her to meet her gaze directly. "Only you. — Victoria Davies

I began to formulate a new law describing the relationship of protection to despondency: A sad soul can kill you quicker--far quicker--than a germ. — John Steinbeck

I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more easily we should reach them. I find now that God's gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that is not a question of growing taller, but of stooping lower and that we have to go down, always down to get His best ones. — F.B. Meyer

Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known. — Jean Cocteau