Marnix College Quotes & Sayings

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it. — Damien Rice

Potato salad in the South is nothing less than the principal smuggler of cholesterol into the festive, careless heart. It is pure poison beneath the facade of bland puritan propriety. It is the food of choice at any food banquet of smiling relatives who celebrate tacitly among themselves the dark twining of two of their promising youth. — Padgett Powell

More and more people were being judged useless and were being flung to the margins of society, where they were destined to look back enviously at the few who still had reasons to be happy. He — Henning Mankell

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It seems our cultures are a natural insult to each other Par'chin," Jardir said. — Peter V. Brett

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable. — Tom DeLonge

Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power. — Natalie Dormer

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint. — Frank Capra

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. — Norman Mailer

Here are problems with the Turkish products inside Russia and the tourism going down. People are worried about that. But the really big economic weapons, oil and especially natural gas, those have not been brought into play yet - mostly in the form of threat so far. So basically the view from here is that, yeah, things are getting bad, but they could still get much, much worse. — Peter Kenyon

These books ... , she begins, and stops. I am frightened for her, for myself decades from now, struggling to retain dignity with two strangers as they take away my books. I can see the straight line to her grave, to mine. — Deborah Meyler

George Matthew Adams asserts, In this life, we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice. It is better to aim for something you want - even though you miss it - than to get something that you didn't aim to get, and which you don't want! If — John C. Maxwell

Oh, everyone's got a view, haven't they? .. Everyone's got something to say, she'd tell me.. — Helen Oyeyemi