Markocsany Quotes & Sayings

Often, one compensates by playing an instrument, or going hiking, or joining some club. In other words, one creates a new type of society, when not working, in which one can feel more at home. — Isaac Asimov

But one good thing with your brain being sick is that you're going to be really good at keeping secrets. That's a good thing if you're a grandpa." Grandpa nods. "That's true, that's true . . . what was that? — Fredrik Backman

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights. — Laura Mennell

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. — Stephen Leacock

If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water. — Jan Erik Vold

My mother, a nonpracticing Jew from Delaware, had married a non-practicing Protestant in California. Sometimes, certainly not always, Jew + Protestant = Unitarian, and that is what we were - 'Jewnitarians,' as I like to say. — Michelle Huneven

I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing it down ... I ghosted between islands of anxiety ... a fatigue that dulled my zest, decanted it. Sorrow felt like a marble coat I couldn't shed. — Diane Ackerman

Man is at his tallest when he bows. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school. — Phil LaMarr

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices. — Shirley Williams

Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters. — Patricia C. Wrede