Marcourt Quotes & Sayings

I don't think any book of mine will ever come as close to pure fantasy as 'A Heaven of Others.' I'll never again set a book in a world or after-world in which it's impossible to buy a cup of coffee or take an undisturbed afternoon nap. — Joshua Cohen

An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be. — Humphrey Bogart

The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, and everyone drank his fill of the muddy water. Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory. — Arthur C. Clarke

It seems to be a rule of life that the less qualified you are to give counsel, the more counsel you give. — Margo Kaufman

The ways of the Lord are unsearchable — Sunday Adelaja

Sparks fly everywhere, Parker. The world's practically on fire. You need something more solid in your relationships than some silly little spark. — Abby Slovin

When we scream and shout inside our heart, deep silence prevails outside and often we are mistaken to be snobbish. — Upasana Banerjee

I lay on the bowsprit, facing astern, with the water foaming into spume under me, the masts with every sail white in the moonlight, towering high above me. I became drunk with the beauty and singing rhythm of it, and for a moment I lost myself - actually lost my life. I was set free! I dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm, became moonlight and the ship and the high dim-starred sky! I belonged, without past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy, within something greater than my own life, or the life of Man, to Life itself! — Eugene O'Neill

You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good. — Stephen Dorff

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span. — Charles Portis

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started. — Steve Prefontaine

I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world you're in, is to view yourself as an outsider, and I always have, to some degree. — Mark Leibovich