Marchent Quotes & Sayings

Even the pleasant things in life are grasped after with an unwarranted desire which overestimates the pleasure they will give, and is accompanied by a constant fear of their loss. — David Ross Komito

Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be involved in the thrilling real-life sleaziness that we suspected Hester was in the thick-of. We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love. — John Irving

Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire? — Mark Thomas

Who can pray this request and mean it? Only he who looks at the whole of life from this point of view. Such a man will not fall into the trap of superspirituality, so concentrating on God's redemption as to disregard his creation; people like that, however devoted and well-meaning, are unearthly in more senses than one, and injure their own humanity. Instead, he will see everything as stemming ultimately from the Creator's hand, and therefore as fundamentally good and fascinating, whatever man may have made of it (beauty, sex, nature, children, arts, crafts, food, games, no less than theology and church things). Then in thankfulness and joy he will so live as to help others see life's values, and praise God for them, as he does. Supremely in this drab age, hallowing God's name starts here, with an attitude of gratitude for the goodness of the creation. — J.I. Packer

You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone.
When Marchent died, she was alone. — Anne Rice

One goes up in a plane knowing, sometimes, that not all of you is going to come down. — Colum McCann

But Marchent, most journalists can't be trusted. You do know that, don't you? — Anne Rice

You gotta do what you gotta do, and when you're done, you'll be stronger. — Eric Blehm

The truth of actually working on a movie set is that you're in the midst of a logistical nightmare. There are so many things going on. There are many factors that keep your ideal scenario from ever happening. And you're rarely going to get that. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Good horror fiction deals with taboos. It must always go to the limits of what is acceptable. — Clive Barker

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands. — Mark Twain

Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise. — Gina Greenlee

I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don't think being gay is a sin. Period. — Kristin Chenoweth

Gracious, I must be the luckiest drunk who ever floated the Arkansas River, or ---" he bowed slightly to the ladies, offering his warmest grin, "--- is this Heaven? — Sandra Jones

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it. — Brian Eno