Marvis Diner Quotes & Sayings

Years ago in 1959 when Dellinger was already an editor on Liberation (then an anarchist-pacifist magazine, of worthy but not very readable articles in more or less vegetarian prose) Mailer had submitted a piece, after some solicitation, on the contrast between real obscenity in advertising, and alleged obscenity in four-letter words. The piece was no irreplaceable work of prose, and in fact was eventually inserted quietly into his book, Advertisements for Myself, but it created difficulty for the editorial board at Liberation, since there was a four-letter word he had used to make his point, the palpable four-letter word which signifies a woman's most definitive organ: these editorial anarchists were decorous; they were ready to overthrow society and replace it with a communion of pacifistic men free of all laws, but they were not ready to print cunt. — Norman Mailer

Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person. — Margaret Atwood

I felt before I thought, as all humans do. — Arthur Japin

I would not pre-pay. I would invest instead and let the investments cover it. — Dave Ramsey

I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out. — Ian Frazier

It made her forget everything, even if for just a minute. — T.K. Leigh

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools. — Arthur Conan Doyle

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one. — Max Frisch

The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

but the priest's vestments are parti-coloured, and both the work and colours are wonderful. — Thomas More

The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational — Steve Allen

She was not afraid. — Sarah J. Maas

I am very afraid of the devil. A strange confession from the lips of an unbeliever. — Witold Gombrowicz