Marissaln Quotes & Sayings

There is something of value in trying to put the world into words. — Ariel Levy

Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life. — Thomas Cogswell Upham

One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set ... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it ... could be dismantled overnight. — J.G. Ballard

It means that your birth, with all your particulars, is a wildly improbable event, and hence precious. You won the sweepstakes by being born at all. Think of all the wallflower sperm and egg cells. You made it, buddy. Whew! What a staggering wonder! What a thing to rejoice in! The lottery wasn't fixed! God didn't rig it! You won fair and square! What a miracle! — Robert M. Price

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education. — James S. Coleman

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired. — Paul Graham

How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals. — N. T. Wright

I say what's in my head, and I'm on honest ground. That is worth so much, and I think it does make my job, as a writer, easier. It makes it possible for me to give people stuff that they like. — Dan Harmon

It seems crazy to cut smoking mothers out of textbooks, but within a few years they won't be allowed in movies either. A woman can throw her newborn child from the roof of a high-rise building. She can then retrieve the body and stomp on it while shooting into the windows of a day-care center, but to celebrate these murders by lighting a cigarette is to send a harmful message. There are, after all, young people watching, and we wouldn't want them to get the wrong idea. — David Sedaris

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration. — Nate Berkus

The ninth grade. I went from 5'9' to 6'8'. — Bubba Smith