Mamby Pamby Quotes & Sayings

Oh great," moaned Owen. "we've got one corpse in the SUV already, and now we have to fit us and this carcass in there too — Peter Anghelides

Take me home. But this was home, Jace's arms surrounding her, the cold wind of Alicante in their clothes, her fingers digging into the back of his neck, the place where his hair curled softly against the skin — Cassandra Clare

My time of martial arts was traditional. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet. — Adam Gopnik

The fjord was frozen solid, — S.M. Reine

The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. — Douglas Adams

If you will but aspire
You will attain to all that you desire.
Before an atom of such need the Sun
Seems dim and mirky by comparison.
It is life's strength, the wings by which we fly
Beyond the further reaches of the sky. — Farid Al-Din Attar

Clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something. — David Sedaris

You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle? — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole. — Saul Bellow

They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody. — Michael Johnson

But the difference is between those who believe that international law is best seen as a dispute-settlement system, resolving conflicts between independent and heterogeneous agents, as opposed to those who see international law as a vehicle for the advance of civilization, enlightenment, human dignity, and so on. — Stephen C. Neff

For a long time, the Court has moved toward outlawing all forms of racial preference, including affirmative action, and Obama seems accepting, even supportive, of the change. — Jeffrey Toobin

My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working. — Dan Byrd