Marcile Lexico Quotes & Sayings

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want. — Mark Leibovich

I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it. — Hampton Sides

Because of our fallen natures, we expect that we will be repenting of sin until glory. But repentance is not simply proof of failure. It is, more importantly, a sign of God's hand upon us. It is a conversion proof, as only a saved person can repent of sin. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction. — Malcolm Muggeridge

In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start. — Karen DeCrow

It is, as she said, difficult to describe someone, since memories are by their nature fragmented, isolated, and arbitrary as glimpses one has at night through lighted windows. — Marilynne Robinson

Oh, we were a degree or two hotter than improper. — Peter Carey

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people. — Luke Ford

Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated ... I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me. — Westbrook Pegler

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make. — Laura Ziskin

I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella. — Katherine Mansfield

She was always like this, only moves when her mind and heart tells her to move, not doing what everyone demanded her to do. — Basma Salem