Markotan Quotes & Sayings

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing. — Dave Eggers

I didn't intend the book as anything therapeutic and I don't think that's a novel's goal or responsibility. — Hanya Yanagihara

Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk ... somewhere You've long been dust, my Halicarnassian friend. But your Nightingales live on. Though the Death world Claws at everything, it will not touch them. — Callimachus

At some point in the journey of being in it for yourself, you realize you need other people. Any good frontier story, in some respect, is about that. — Jonathan E. Steinberg

Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you - as husband and wife - commit to keep growing spiritually. — Elizabeth George

Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man. — Gina Gershon

between a full-time job, law school, hours of reading cases, and study groups, I barely have time to sleep, much less date. Which is why I gave them up. "Which floor?" His upper crust Brit accent curls around my spine, making mush out of me. "Uh, — Magda Alexander

But your solitude will be your home and haven even in the midst of very strange conditions, and from there you will discover all your paths. — Rainer Maria Rilke

We adults are behind the world in which our children live. They are running ahead. And in failing to catch up, we neglect them. We fail kids daily by not taking a more active hand in examining their lives, including the fossilized norms that no longer account adequately for their lives. Perhaps, if there is anything good — Ken Corbett

I thought it was a fleeting emotion, something that eventually fades like lust. Now I know that real love is when the soul meets its true mate. True and undeniable. It's as instinctual as the need to eat, sleep or breathe. Like a puzzle piece that only fits in one place, you are my home, the only place I belong. You are it for me. My true. — Gwendolyn Grace

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well. — Robert Goulet

There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it. — David Foster Wallace

I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? — Jean Kerr