Marieholm Quotes & Sayings

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility. — Viktor Vekselberg

He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so. — Anthony Trollope

That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said "On the Road." He smiled, said, "That was my favorite book at sixteen." At the time , I thought he was patronizing me, that it was going to be my favorite book forever and ever, amen. But he was right. As an adult, I'm more of a Gatsby girl-more tragic, more sad, just as interested in what America costs as what it has to offer. — Sarah Vowell

I am going to spend as much time as I can creating delightful things out of my existence, because that's what brings me awake and that's what brings me alive. I — Elizabeth Gilbert

God grants victory to perseverance. — Simon Bolivar

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

THERE IS NO such thing as magic. That was merely the word people used to explain something so cleverly done that there was no ready explanation for it, and the simplest technique employed by its practitioners was to distract the audience with one moving and obvious hand (usually in a white glove) while the other was doing something else. — Tom Clancy

He was a rube, but he was no tourist. — Colson Whitehead

When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. At other times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out of you is probably it. — Peter McWilliams

The test of happiness is gratitude. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You'll get in," Quince assures me, proving once again that he can read my mind, even without a magical bond. "And if you don't," he adds, slinging an arm around my shoulders, "you can always take over for me at the lumberyard."
"Ha ha," I reply, sending a sharp elbow into his ribs.
"Lighten up, princess. — Tera Lynn Childs

I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that's the function I serve for others. — Ben Brantley

The CIA was always looking to tie every kind of criminal activity in the Middle East to al Qaeda. — Kenneth Eade

He's a vagina voodooist! — Angela Graham

I can be a little acerbic. — Mary McCormack