Mappa Mondo Quotes & Sayings

The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean? — Bruce Johnston

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me. — Judy Collins

Let's suppose that you want to say, "I am a jerk." IN the 18th century, you would have to go around person to person and utter the phrase individually to each one of them. However, here in the third millennium, with our advances in telephone communication, it is possible to say "I am a jerk" to a thousand people at a time by forgetting to turn off your cell phone and having it ring during a performance of Death of a Salesman. — Steve Martin

If it were only about my job, I would have saved myself the effort and suspended you ... You can accept that and my help or walk out now and throw everything away. — Skye Callahan

You did the best you could with the knowledge you had in that moment. It's easier to look back at an event and see a better choice or pathway because we already learned from our experience. Hindsight happens after the lesson, so we can't condemn ourselves for not knowing the lesson before we learned it. — Emily Maroutian

As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility. — Thucydides

The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God. — Annie Dillard

Well! I'm glad you didn't call him a buffoon." "Or pompous," Pauline added. "Or ignorant," Jeb chimed in. "Or an ass," Kaden said. "I didn't call him an ass." Rafe grunted. "You may as well have." Now — Mary E. Pearson

I bet The Walking Dead gets really low ratings out in Montana, just because all they need to do is look out their f-king window, am I right? — Bill Burr

Bunny Sue was nineteen. She had honey-bobbed hair and candid, near-insolent green eyes. She had a snub, delightful nose, a cool, regal, and tapering neck, a fine, intelligent mouth that covered teeth so startling they might have been cleansed by sun gods. Without any makeup save lipstick, her complexion was as milk flecked with butter, the odor she cast as wholesome as bread. On my first breathless vision of her, I wanted to bury my teeth, Dracula-like, into her flanks, knowing that she would bleed pure butterscotch. — Frederick Exley

I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft ... If you give people red hair when in real life they haven't got red hair, I've noticed they don't recognize themselves, anyway. — Carol Bly