Margot Macomber Quotes & Sayings

Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born. — Ian McEwan

The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford. — P. G. T. Beauregard

They had a sound basis of union. Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him. — Ernest Hemingway,

Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony as numerology, phrenology, palmistry, alchemy, the reading of tea leaves, and the practice of divination by the entrails of a goat. No serious person will buy the notion that our lives are influenced individually by the movement of distant planets. This is the sawdust blarney of the carnival midway. — James J. Kilpatrick

The very best way in all the world to overcome self-consciousn ess and shyness is to get interested in other people and to think of them and, almost miraculously, your timidity will pass. Do something for other people. Practice deeds of kindness, acts of friendliness, and you'll be surprised to see what happens. — Dale Carnegie

I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A. — Israel Broussard

I keep coming back to certain books, and you - to try to find myself again — John Geddes

I'm the only one who gets to kiss that sexy mouth of yours ... The only one who gets to taste between your legs. And I'm the only one who gets to bury himself inside you ... and make you come. — Robin Bielman

Maybe that's what we look for all our lives, the worst possible grief, to make us truly ourselves before we die. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre. — William Golding

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference. — Dennis Lehane

Men are the product of their historical experience, limited in their choices by who and where they are in history. — Glenn Porter