Martha Beckman Quotes & Sayings

I'm a pretty gentle person so I don't really have much of a thing of being a badass. — Lee Pace

New things, new ideas arrived and strutted their stuff and were vilified by some and then lo! that which had been a monster was suddenly totally important to the world. — Terry Pratchett

Leave it to a writer's mind to add two and two together and come up with 69. — Stjepan Sejic

Yours is ... il sent comme lavande."
Is that French for 'You stink'?"
It means 'lavender'."
Huh." She sniffed at her wrist. "I thought I smelled more like a grape Popsicle. — Lynn Viehl

We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us. — Joseph Smith Jr.

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror — Charlie Chaplin

I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side ... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive so long as her Adam flourishes. Whatever serpent shall tempt her to go astray etc [will only cause] her husband to rule more strictly over her. — Alexander Spotswood

Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child. — H.P. Lovecraft

My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability. — Elsie De Wolfe

He stared up at me, and even as the house fell apart around us, even as drops of fire rained down from the sky, his hand raised and brushed a lock of hair out of my face, and I felt his stomach rise as he breathed in deeply.
"You," he whispered. "You're a boy?" His hands cupped my face, and a tear streaked down my cheek onto his fingers.
"I dreamt of you but ... but I never thought ... — T.J. Klune

Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking all the responses in a manner that does not cross the threshold of awareness - it is no wonder that this dreaming brain seems to be more active than the waking brain. — William C. Dement