Marlynn Douglas Quotes & Sayings

It was as if the boy had already divined what his senses and intellect had not encompassed yet: that doomed wilderness whose edges were being constantly and punily gnawed at by men with plows and axes who feared it because it was wilderness, men myriad and nameless even to one another in the land where the old bear had earned a name, and through which ran not even a mortal beast but an anachronism indomitable and invincible out of an old dead time, a phantom, epitome and apotheosis of the old wild life which the little puny humans swarmed and hacked at in fury of abhorrence and fear like pygmies about the ankles of a drowsing elephant;
the old bear, solitary, indomitable, and alone; widowered childless and absolved of mortality
old Priam reft of his old wife and outlived all his sons. — William Faulkner

You just feel better when you look nice. — Gin Wigmore

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities. — Jennifer Egan

Internal competition has the direct effect of making coaching difficult or impossible. — Tom DeMarco

I sometimes wonder if our world leaders are very smart and just putting us on, or very stupid and mean it. — Mark Twain

I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue. — Rory Bremner

Bed is the perfect climate. — Noel Coward

If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play. — Norbert Leo Butz