Mareen Von Quotes & Sayings

If a violin string could ache, i would be that string. — Vladimir Nabokov

If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography. — James A. Michener

What was scattered, gathers.
What was gathered, blows away — Heraclitus

A Glimpse
A glimpse through an interstice caught,
Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark'd seated in a corner,
Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word. — Walt Whitman

I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three. — Greg Akcelrod

Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you. — Mitchell Baker

Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe. — Henri Frederic Amiel

When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas. — Chris Brown

I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life. — Amy Koppelman

Why'd she leave so early? It's practically yesterday. — Maggie Stiefvater