Marnix Van Quotes & Sayings

Being me is a job - is labour so time-consuming and expensive that I have to have a second job just to support it. So that I can drink, I have to get drink and that isn't something people give away and then there's drink that I need because I have drunk and the other drink I have to keep around because, sooner or later, I will drink it. That's a full-time occupation: that's like being a miner, or a nurse. — A. L. Kennedy

Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification. — Karl Popper

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that. — Rachel Dratch

Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren,
Since o'er shady groves they hover,
And with leaves and flow'rs do cover
The friendless bodies of unburied men.
Call unto his funeral dole
The ant, the field-mouse and the mole,
To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm,
And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm,
But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,
For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Let holy Church receive him duly,
Since he paid the church-tithes truly. — John Webster

Prosperous suburbia was one of the end-states of history. Once achieved, only plague, flood, or nuclear war could threaten its grip. — J.G. Ballard

When I was five or six, I started dressing up like Davy Crockett. — Phil Collins

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we
we divine it. — Sophie Swetchine

I'm very superstitious ... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. — Norman Cook

If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. — Colum McCann

Because if it hurts, it's your thinking that's hurting you. — Byron Katie