Marginale Quotes & Sayings

I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate. — John Updike

She touched him and found that even something as innocent as the lacing of their fingers could raise all the hairs on the back of her neck and make her blood beat faster. — Jodi Picoult

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them. — J.B. Priestley

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time. — Diane Lane

There's not really any kind of love that's 'bad.' All kinds of love teach us about ourselves and about each other. — Leland Dirks

Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis. — William Wells Brown

Is this all we are? Continual actions and reactions? No control over our future? [ ... ] If that's true, then life is one pathetic and sick game. — Katie McGarry

John Kerry was always in front of the camera but not out doing the hard work. — Mitt Romney

Against such a background one can easily imagine the shock that must have gripped readers of The Times of London, who turned to their paper one morning in January 1882 and found a lengthy report on a parliamentary speech by the attorney general concluding with the unexpectedly forthright statement: "The speaker then said he felt inclined for a bit of fucking." Not surprisingly, it caused a sensation. The executives of The Times were so dumbstruck by this outrage against common decency that four full days passed before they could bring themselves to acknowledge the offense. — Anonymous