Marquesa Isles Quotes & Sayings

[T]he important thing was that each Saturday they must win games and put The Academy on the sporting pages. For that, after all, was the final index to the rating of an American school. — John Horne Burns

Life is about feeling. Touches on your skin, both passionate and icy. Anything other than normal, the average, the lukewarm. — Tony Brady

I think I'm a straight actor who occasionally does musicals; most people think I'm an eccentric comedian. It's amazing how many years you can spend in this business just sorting out something as simple and basic as that. — Ron Moody

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz. — Ryan Reynolds

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it. — Trevor Moore

I just ... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go outside!' But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of ... rather an introverted child, probably. — Helen Garner

When, through synthetic work, about which we shall have more to say, a certain union has been established between two psychological phenomena, the presence of one is enough to cause the other to start in the mind also. — Anonymous

Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. — Khaled Hosseini

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer. — Mickey Mantle

It is always tempting to try to shut out the suffering that is an inescapable part of the human condition, but once it has broken through the cautionary barricades we have erected against it, we can never see the world in the same way again. — Karen Armstrong

Mediocrity will be conquered when we become more of who we are and more like who we were. — Robert J. Braathe

I'll be waiting at the airport.'
'You just made my year' she said.
'You made my life. — Dennis Lehane

It's human nay-cha...For me to sperminay-cha. — Megan McCafferty

When you do something you are proud of, praise yourself for it. — Mildred Newman

I don't know if you suffer in the same way, but with me the act of talking in the nature of real mashed potatoes always induces a sort of prickly sensation and a hideous feeling of shame, together with a marked starting of the pores. — P.G. Wodehouse