Marc Connelly Quotes & Sayings

What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories. — Moby

We are a breed of spoilers!' thought Jolyon, 'close and greedy; the bloom of life is not safe with us. Let her come to me as she will, when she will, not at all if she will not. Let me be just her stand-by, her perching-place; never-never her cage! — John Galsworthy

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. — Erwin Schrodinger

Prayer shouldn't be a burden but a privilege - God wants our fellowship. — Billy Graham

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes. — Oliver Wendell Holmes