Marabahaya Quotes & Sayings

The universe is a put-up job. — Fred Hoyle

[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you don't know, you can. It just takes a lot more work. — William T. Vollmann

He bought her six dresses, and I brought her god-damned cat back from the dead, so who loves her more?! — Stephen King

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet. — Aimee Mullins

Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me. — Tibor Fischer

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too. — S.E. Hinton

Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,' you're fighting ancient genetic programming. — Martha Beck

Because with a really good book you get something new every time you read it. Because ... Well ... Because you're a different person each time. — Derrolyn Anderson

The body is a rock; the arms are snakes — Claudio Arrau

It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress. — Dorothy Draper

I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going largely on his reputation. — Jean Webster

While loyalists and defectors overall said John Smith did a better job of standing up for Labour's values, they put Blair ahead on representing the whole country, appealing beyond traditional Labour voters and offering strong, competent leadership; switchers to the Tories gave him a clear lead in all categories. — Michael Ashcroft

Doubts about the reductionist account of life go against the dominant scientific consensus, but that consensus faces problems of probability that I believe are not taken seriously enough, both with respect to the evolution of life forms through accidental mutation and natural selection and with respect to the formation from dead matter of physical systems capable of such evolution. The more we learn about the intricacy of the genetic code and its control of the chemical processes of life, the harder those problems seem. — Thomas Nagel

Did you boys say something? My new headphones are mostly soundproof and also I was ignoring you. — Ananth Panagariya