Marcussen Invitational Quotes & Sayings

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay. — Mark Twain

The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong. — Carla Hall

If he cannot be tried for his failures as a king, let him be tried for his failures as a man. — Leigh Bardugo

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. — James Wolcott

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night. — Max Brooks

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. — Quentin Tarantino

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic. — Alan Rickman

Vexed I am
Of late with passions of some difference,
Conceptions only proper to myself,
Which gives some soil, perhaps, to my behaviors. — William Shakespeare

Ah! dear friend,
you little know the possibilities which are in you. — Charles Spurgeon

It is a sense you do not possess, and hence I cannot explain it to you," she added condescendingly. "Imagine trying to explain a sense of smell to someone who had none. What sounds like an arbitrary, almost mystic ability is no different from smelling apple blossoms in the dark. — Robin Hobb

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying. — Augustus Hare

In the summer of 1845 Edward Little was sixteen years old and restless in his blood. — James Carlos Blake