Marlisa Wells Quotes & Sayings

Custom! that skillful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable. — Marcel Proust

My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she'll send me something. My mom's a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these 'woe is me' things. I think she might be Jewish. I'm not sure. She's Baptist-Jewish, which is a double whammy. — Ronnie Dunn

The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of the salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars. — Chief Dan George

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Nicki Minaj I think is one of the best judges I've ever worked with. — Nigel Lythgoe

People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer. — David Bowie

The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within ... Nothing is more essential to us. — Marilynne Robinson

Sitting there in the Alabama winter with my mouth full of cold turnip and mud, I could see at least for a moment how if you ever took truly to heart the ultimate goodness and joy of things, even at their bleakest, the need to praise someone or something for it would be so great that you might even have to go out and speak of it to the birds of the air. — Frederick Buechner

What had Pledger-Brown said? Too bad, Davey; he wanted blood and all we could offer was guts. — Robertson Davies

Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference. — John Harvey Kellogg

Let my country die for me. — James Joyce

He was something in between. Steadfast in pursuit but adaptable. Charming yet respectful. In other words, complex. — Priscilla West

Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices. — Andy Stanley

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet. — Jurgen Prochnow

If manta rays are going to be harmless, they should look more harmless, Pardee thought. Fuckers look like aquatic Draculas. — Christopher Moore