Markieff Quotes & Sayings

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways. — Tahir Shah

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. — Ambrose Bierce

A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.
[On his inability to keep for himself a profitable income from his invention of the Spinning Mule.] — Samuel Crompton

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene. — Greg Kinnear

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers. — Charlie Cox

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. — Virginia Woolf

Every single one of you, before you get off the pile, affect the head. Early, affect the head. Continue, touch and hit the head. — Gregg Williams