Marrot Quotes & Sayings

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all? — Chuck Palahniuk

Acquaintance of Miss Rand's, a conventional middle-aged woman, told her once that she worshiped a certain famous actress and would give her life to meet her. Miss Rand was dubious about the authenticity of the woman's emotion, and this suggested a dramatic idea: a story in which a famous actress, so beautiful that she comes to represent to men the embodiment of their deepest ideals, actually enters the lives of her admirers. She comes in a context suggesting that she is in grave danger. Until this point, her worshipers have professed their reverence for her - in words, which cost them nothing. Now, however, she is no longer a distant dream, but a reality demanding action on their part, or betrayal. — Ayn Rand

It's a very remarkable story."
"Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away. — James Hilton

I would like to stay like this, lazy, warm, in the silence where only our regular breathing can be heard, without ever having to make gestures, speak words which sell us out and betray us; this moment is real and alive, I stretch it into eternity... — Albertine Sarrazin

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. — Alice Munro

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood. — Davey Havok

Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence. — Frederick Lenz

The dress means no harm, after all. And it is new. It carries nothing inside it but the possible beginnings of her downfall. — Amanda Hodgkinson

I think that evening was the beginning of the end of us. Not because we were going to have sex, but because I think we both realized that we were forcing ourselves to be something that neither of us wanted. - Diane — Elizabeth Eulberg

I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene? — Ozzy Osbourne

I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word. — Stanley Cavell

Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less. — Ray Mancini

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He wants to take you to a new place, to transform you into a new person. — Craig Groeschel