Marvelyn Stout Quotes & Sayings

Girls kind of get crazy when they have guns. These girls had never done it, and all they wanted to do was inflict as much pain as they could. We had one rule: Don't shoot us between the legs. But their aim didn't necessarily follow that rule. — Jon Heder

Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better. — Stevie Smith

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong. — Masuji Ibuse

A man comes to Mozart and wants to become a composer. Mozart says that they have to study theory for a couple of years, that they should study orchestration and become proficient at the piano, and goes on like this. Finally, the man says "but you wrote your first symphony when you were 8 years old." Mozart says "Yes, but I didn't ask anybody. — Richard David Feinman

Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith

When you get a little older, you think, I'd like to make a little money and stick it away or buy a place - or win the world championship. — Chris LeDoux

One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution ... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic. — Felix Frankfurter

I'm not crying for you. I'm crying for me. Do you know how long it took me to find you? Do you know how many awful dates I've been on? I can't" - she is breathless now - "I can't join Match again. I just can't. — Gabrielle Zevin

A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice ... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive. — Martha Griffiths

The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too. — Wes Fesler

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door. — Barbara Cartland

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change. — Robert Mugabe

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness. — George Iles

The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind,
the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine. — Adyashanti