Marcom Awards Quotes & Sayings

You can only get to where you want to be, through where you are now. — Catherine Louise Birmingham

Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's what enabled western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza. The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human designt, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with with a sudden wondrous poetry ... Sabina was very much attracted by the alien quality of New York's beauty. Fran found it intriguing but frightening; it made him feel homesick for Europe. — Milan Kundera

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers. — Abraham Lincoln

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom. — Jane Smiley

I don't want to stay here overnight,' said Harry angrily, sitting up and throwing back his covers. 'I want to find McLaggen and kill him. — J.K. Rowling

everyone's so full of shit, born& raised by hypocrites. — Green Day

Melissa Foster is a wonderful connector of readers and books, a friend of authors, and a tireless advocate for women. She is the real deal. — Jennie Shortridge

God did raise a finger to stop you. Here I am. Guess which finger."
~Emma Jane Hellsbane, /Hellsbane series Book 1/ — Paige Cuccaro

Some people are born skinny, and that's just the way it is. You can't point a finger at them and say they're ill or anorexic. It isn't fair to people born that way. — Heidi Klum

I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges. — Larry David

We are culturally predisposed to sheltering criticism from criticism; we have enshrined the iconoclast — Marilynne Robinson

I am considering running for Senate, as well as other opportunities. — Heather Wilson

Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads To the pervading symphony of Peace. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours a day, or, when I'm in the final editing stages, it can be 14 hours a day. — Rick Riordan

I'm scared I'll never stop comparing my life without him to how my life was when I was with him. — Colleen Hoover