Marshella Toldson Quotes & Sayings

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that. — Peter Shilton

Out of dark waters, this. — Jenny Offill

Blueprints are like pets and children
difficult to appreciate or understand unless they're yours. — Margo Kaufman

The word comes from Latin roots com and templum, "with" and "temple. — Gerald G. May

... we stood there on the quiet sidewalk, stuck between mutiny and mediocrity — David Arnold

When some early Tom Waits demos were released against his wishes in the early 1990s, he is supposed to have said: 'Demo tapes are like baby pictures, everybody's got them, you just don't want them passed around. — Kirk Lake

It's like concentrating on your own breath: once you start thinking about the air rushing in and out of your body, your breath has a way of getting stuck in your throat so that you understand how easy it would be to fall down and die. — Carol Shields

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense. — T.J. Clark

The mirror had no power. The mirror was just a piece of silvered glass; the enchantment was all in me. — Maya Panika

Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. — James J. Corbett

She considered me as if grasping all at once the incredible
and somehow tedious, confusing and unnecessary
fact that the distant, elegant, slender, forty-year-old valetudinarian in velvet coat sitting beside her had known and adored every pore and follicle of her pubescent body. In her washed-out gray eyes, strangely spectacled, our poor romance was for a moment reflected, pondered upon, and dismissed like a dull party, like a rainy picnic to which only the dullest bores had come, like a humdrum exercise, like a bit of dry mud caking her childhood. — Vladimir Nabokov

My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free. — Stuart Wilde

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. — Buddha

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal. — Hilary Rosen