Mantelpiece Piece Quotes & Sayings

No one mentioned the sad piece of tinsel, naked in places, hanging across the chimneybreast, nor that Twelfth Night was a week ago. No one mentioned the two Christmas cards on the mantelpiece. No one mentioned them because inside they were blank. — Andrew Barrett

What a selfish boy you are. You wished for the world but all you received were the skies. — F.K. Preston

Took me a few years to understand what intelligence is; Took me an entire lifetime to understand ignorance. I still haven't found an explanation for ignorance, because the ignorant are too ignorant to justify their ignorance. — Robin Sacredfire

Then the fit hit the Shan. — Roger Zelazny

And as to being in a fright,
Allow me to remark
That Ghosts have just as good a right
In every way, to fear the light,
As Men to fear the dark. — Lewis Carroll

I always thought my mother was so damn cute! — Kate Hudson

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful. — William Morris

A lot of people are not used to having death in their lives or anything like that and I think that's not incredibly natural either. So it definitely can take its toll. At the same time I think it's important to face your own mortality, which I do most every day by doing the show, to realize that your life is short and to take the opportunities that you need to take and be fearless. — Emily Deschanel

Anything else?" Yes, my body can dissolve other magic on contact. I'm essentially a battering ram against magic. "No, that's it." Kai turned in place, his eyes scanning the scene. "Something feels wrong here." The magic-dissolving battering ram standing next to you. — Ella Summers

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort. That's the law of nature, and you defied it. — Hugh Laurie

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes. — Dee Hock

Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it. — Alan King