Marshall Thurber Quotes & Sayings

I see the eight of us in the Annexe as if we were a patch of blue sky surrounded by menacing black clouds. The perfectly round spot on which we're standing is still safe, but the clouds are moving in on us, and the ring between us and the approaching danger is being pulled tighter and tighter. We're surrounded by darkness and danger, and in our desperate search for a way out we keep bumping into each other. We look at the fighting down below and the peace and beauty up above. In the meantime, we've been cut off by the dark mass of clouds, so that we can go neither up nor down. It looms before us like an impenetrable wall, trying to crush us, but not yet able to. I can only cry out and implore, 'Oh, ring, ring, open wide and let us out!' Yours, Anne — Anne Frank

The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierces and the more kindly it works. — William Gouge

Superhero power ... I probably would just want to fly. I definitely would not want to be able to see through walls. I think walls are there for a reason. People put them up for a reason. You don't want to be looking through them. That would only cause nothing but misery and angst to know what's happening behind people's walls. — Brian Regan

You look within and upon and around me, savoring every inch. You pull my ear for no reason, and I can tell you really don't want to cry. As a tear falls between by breasts, I look away and pretend the grass is a jungle, and the ants, little kings of forgotten tribes. — Virginia Petrucci

One thing I have finally gotten through my thick skull: Anyone looking for love is also looking for trouble. — Bill Willingham

Because if I kiss you, then I'll want to taste you, and if I taste you then I'll need to fuck you. And if I fuck you, that means your mine. And when I make you mine, I want it to be in OUR bed. Not in a hotel room ... Is that okay? — Jay McLean

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression. — William Vickrey

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years. — Adrien Brody

Charity is all very nice,but people want to get something out of it.That's the principle of charity affairs. — Simone De Beauvoir

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror. — Aaron Eckhart

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that let's you know when to laugh if you're to stupid to know when the joke is. — Marilyn Manson

The secret of Christianity is in being. It is in being a possessor of the nature of Jesus Christ. — John G. Lake

I decided to use 'Frown Power.' This is where you socially deter people from being bigoted by frowning at their ignorant remarks. — The Harvard Lampoon

Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams. — Rudolf Arnheim