Markenlos Quotes & Sayings

The function of the painter is to render ... the visible surface so that at a certain distance ... and position it appears ... like the body itself. — Leon Battista Alberti

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance. — Nina Easton

Getting a second thing isn't always easy in this busy, competitive television market. — James Wolk

Magical properties were attributed to it. Its brew was sipped on the steps of sacrificial temples; its ecstasies were fierce and terrible. Is this what he fears? Corruption by pleasure, the subtle transubstantiation of the flesh into a vessel for debauch? — Joanne Harris

Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith. — Thomas Merton

I chose biochemistry as my major and graduated after 4 years with an Honours degree in Biochemistry. During that time, I had come to love biochemistry research, although I was just getting my feet wet in laboratory research. — Elizabeth Blackburn

To the untrained eye, Ben had nothing, at least by the bizarre rules that governed high school. But really, Ben was one of the few who wasn't pretending, one of the few who was free. — Jay Bell

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. — Betty Smith

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics? — Benjamin Franklin

Aphrodite then promised Zeus that as soon as the girdle could be removed, she would reserve her flower for him. And she told him that her flower, as Nerites had advised her, was like a lovely oyster & she hoped that he liked oysters. And she told him that that was all that she had to give him in return for his seed. And she hoped that he would swallow her flower just as she swallowed his seed. — Nicholas Chong

Loneliness does not arise so much from something lost as from a longing for something well remembered. Isolation cares nothing for memory. — Marguerite Poland

Sweet," he whispered, and stole a kiss from her lips. "Sweet ... let me stay with you a little longer."
-Jack to Amanda — Lisa Kleypas

Being true to yourself is always the right thing to do."

"Is it? Even if you're a monster? — Heather R. Blair