Marea Rosie Quotes & Sayings

I like to remember what I have to be thankful for. When it gets bad, I usually list them out loud to my wife and myself. Helps me maintain a balanced perspective. — Allen Evangelista

A lawyer's answer ... so close to the truth that the truth was able to hide in its shadow. — Stephen King

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind. — Hugh Kingsmill

Still afraid of pain behind my four-day beard. — Charles Bukowski

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood. — Amelia Bloomer

Mark this one thing my boy: never, never, never can a man make himself ridiculous in the eyes of a woman by anything he may do on her account. Not even by the most childish performances. Do anything you like, stand on your head, talk the most utter twaddle, swank like a peacock, sing under her window - anything at all but one thing: don't be matter of fact, don't be sensible. — Erich Maria Remarque

We had a lengthy discussion of the difficulties I had had working on other biographies and the efforts made by Martha Gellhorn, Susan Sontag and others to prevent publication. Gellhorn's representative, Bill Buford, sent a threatening letter to my publisher. Michael, a journalist first, called Buford a "dirty dog." I never dreamed, then, that he, too, would, in the end, assume a rather high-handed attitude towards my manuscript, ordering me to make changes and deferring to the feelings of others. On this day, I said: "I don't respond well to those threats. I don't allow them to intimidate me." "We don't believe in authorised biographies," Michael concluded. "All authorised biographies are hereby condemned." I would remember these words later when Michael the Apostate appeared. — Carl Rollyson

When you really want a role, you just put your soul in it. — Billy Magnussen

I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets. — Tom Hodgkinson

There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.
And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes. — Nina George

I'm a jeans person; I love Abercrombie. My shoe collection is composed mostly of Chucks and a few pairs of girly ones. — Lalaine

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom. — J.G. Ballard