Mallory Ervin Quotes & Sayings

He tried to press the machine into my hands, but I stepped back. He was getting too close, and besides, I didn't know what this meant. Was he trying to sell me the machine? Was he giving it to me? I had heard that in America, if a girl accepted a ring from a boy, it meant she would marry him. What about accepting a tape-playing machine? Did it mean I might have to dance with him? — Minfong Ho

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here. — Pete Gill

Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily. — Suzanne Collins

Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take. — John Podhoretz

Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort. — Tom Shales

They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed. — Stephanie Dray

Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing. — Margaret Chittenden

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm. — Gautama Buddha

You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel. — Nancy Kress

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open. — Margaret Bourke-White

Survival is optional. No one has to change. — W. Edwards Deming

No duelling. No summoning of imps or other manifestations of elements potentially damaging to the records, including but not limited to: elementals, imps, sprites, ifrits, goblins, vile maidens, elohim, and major, minor and inferior spawn. No praying. No cursing, except by staff. The library is closed on public holidays. Donations welcome."
-Demonia Library — Justina Robson

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up. — Jim DeMint

If I score against Liverpool I will not celebrate. — Fernando Torres

What use to skip those two grades in grammar school and get such a jump on everybody else,
when the result is to wind up so far behind? — Philip Roth