Markhams Contact Quotes & Sayings

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief. — Wilma Mankiller

She stretched out her hand, saying, "Vernon! My dear, what a delightful surprise!"
"What's surprising about it?" he enquired, lifting his black brows. "Didn't you ask me to come?"
The smile remained pinned to Lady Buxted's lips, but she replied with more than a touch of acidity: "To be sure I did, but so many days ago that I supposed you had gone out of town!"
"Oh, no!" he said, returning her smile with one of great sweetness. — Georgette Heyer

I'm no longer afraid of not making enough mistakes. — Dana Gould

Rapture is costly; it usually means you are overlooking consequences. — Sherry Turkle

We also knew we definitely wanted to infuse into the narrative the relation of women at different ages with motherhood, their relationship with their babies versus their partners', their overall "need" to have children, their fears and projections on their children, etc. All of this we put into a pot, if you will, and simmered for a while until we had what made sense to us. — Rania Attieh

There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years. — Tyler Perry

He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and what it was — Leo Tolstoy

Practice like it's a game; play the game like it's practice. — Mike Candrea

I don't think I'm cut out to be a supervillain. [Laughs.] I think I'd be a supervillain that would exercise some form of mind control. Rather than war, I'd force people to get on with each other and I'd force people to argue reasonably about things rather than be polemical. So I'd be a supervillain that makes everyone get on, but forcefully. There would be no choice about it. No free will. — Jemaine Clement

Most people argue over beliefs rather than truth. — S.C. Meakin

When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't. — Neil Strauss

She wondered which would be worse -- to belong to the group assigned to lifelong drudgery, or to be on the other side, thinking you deserved everything the universe by sheer good luck had tossed in your lap, never realizing your whole life was based on lies. — Jo Victor

It is time for Republicans in D.C. to fight. Too often, they give up; they negotiate with themselves. They said they would get rid of the unconstitutional amnesty. They didn't do that. They said they would repeal Obamacare if we gave them the majority. They didn't do that, either. — Bobby Jindal

My own brain. When I get it out of the way, I'm fine. — Rachael Yamagata

All history, and most especially the history of the 20th century, argues against placing ideas in the saddle and allowing them to ride mankind. Too often, they end up riding individual men and women into mass graves. — Terry Teachout