Marble Cake Quotes & Sayings

How good it would be to know where to look for help in this life and what to expect after it, there, beyond the grave! How happy and calm I'd be, if I could say now: Lord, have mercy on me! ... But to whom shall I say it? Either it is an indefinable, unfathomable power, which I not only cannot address, but which I cannot express in words - the great all or nothing ... or it is that God of whom Princess Marya has sewn in here, in this amulet? Nothing, nothing is certain, except the insignificance of everything I can comprehend and the grandeur of something incomprehensible but most important! — Leo Tolstoy

I wasn't vegetarian yet -- I was young and my conscience still under construction. (Kelly Johnson) — Dee Clark

The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world — Kofi Annan

She might not have been party to love, but it still took a lot of volume to fill a life. — Colum McCann

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating. — Jeff Lindsay

It had been done to leave terror. It was almost artistic. — Miles Cameron

I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether. — Rachel McAdams

The writer Lee Smith, who once had a New York copy editor query in the margin of her manuscript "Double-wide what?" tells a perfectly marvelous, spot-on story about Eudora Welty when she came to Hollins College, where Smith was a student. Welty read a short story in which one female character presents another with a marble cake. In the back of the audience Smith noted a group of leather-elbowed, goatee-sporting PhD candidates, all of whom were getting pretty excited. One started waving his hand as soon as she stopped reading and said, "Miz Welty, how did you come up with that powerful symbol of the marble cake, with the feminine and masculine, the yin and the yang, the Freudian and the Jungian all mixed together like that?" Smith reported that Welty looked at him from the lectern without saying anything for a while. Finally she replied mildly, "Well, you see, it's a recipe that's been in my family for some time. — Sally Mann

Its wrong to think that you need a heart to love — Jocelyn Davies

The earth is at piece, there is no hunger, there is no violence,the environment is healed, honesty, curtesy and kindness practiced by all, our world has never been more ... perfect.In latest it is no longer our world, we've been invaded by an alien raise to occupy bodies of almost all human beings on the planet and the few humans who survived are on the run. — Stephenie Meyer