Mark Neeld Quotes & Sayings

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance. — Grace Hopper

People are very passionate in Italy. If you like something, you like something. If you hate something, you hate something. When you hate something, you are screaming. — Monica Bellucci

The main function of color should be to serve expression. — Henri Matisse

The past is more than a memory. — John Trudell

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you. — Elizabeth Warren

The more you communicate love in your relationship, you breathe new life into it. — Elizabeth Bourgeret

There is no doubt that the biblical concept of the Kingdom calls for a ministry to the suffering, the imprisoned, the oppressed, the hungry and whomever is dehumanized by an unjust society. In abstract, almost all of us can affirm this with enthusiasm. When it is the vocation, however, of one of our number to make this Gospel imperative, a matter demanding and requiring us to change our comfortable ways, then many of us fall away. The prophet has never been popular among his other contemporaries. He has been stoned, beheaded, crucified and shot. If not killed, we have been all too ready to vilify him or her in the name of God, little realizing that it may well be God who sent the prophet to challenge our complacency. — Urban T. Holmes III

Nature knows two fundamentally different ways of adaptation, which determine the further existence of the living organism the one is by increased fertility, accompanied by a relatively small degree of defensive power and individual conservation; the other is by individual equipment of manifold means of self-protection, coupled with a relatively insignificant fertility. — C. G. Jung

Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument - that, friends, is real wisdom. — Saul Bellow

I like a kid who holds nothing back. — Emmy Laybourne

Cannibalism is a problem. In many cases the practice is rooted in ritual and superstition rather than gastronomy, but not always. A French Dominican in the seventeenth century observed that the Caribs had most decided notions of the relative merits of their enemies. As one would expect, the French were delicious, by far the best. This is no surprise, even allowing for nationalism. The English came next, I'm glad to say. The Dutch were dull and stodgy and the Spaniards so stringy, they were hardly a meal at all, even boiled. All this sounds sadly like gluttony. - PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

No more tears now; I will think upon revenge. — Mary Stuart

Lots of people would say House doesn't have any charm at all. I would disagree, though: I find him immensely charming and endlessly entertaining. He has a sort of grace and a wit about him, and ultimately, I think he is on the side of the angels. — Hugh Laurie