Maryna Allan Quotes & Sayings

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends. — Mick Jagger

He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning. — George R R Martin

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. — Pierre Loti

Now, what is the comparative loudness of a man's flicking the corners of a few banknotes in the middle of his room with the same man's pissing furiously from a bursting bladder into a stainless-steel sink in the corner of his room nearest to a pair of huddled, listening females? — Gerald Murnane

In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objects. I would like a pet: a bird, say, or a cat. A familiar. Anything at all familiar. — Margaret Atwood

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar — Henry David Thoreau

Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand. — Tallulah Bankhead

If you haven't heard a rumor by noon, make one up. If you're a writer, make sure it's a full page of the book you're currently working on. — Lamont Tanksley

This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next. — Louise Erdrich

If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get a celestial resurrection. — Mark E. Petersen

I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas. — Tariq Ramadan

We care about how many players you develop rather than how many trophies you win. — Claudio Reyna

I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's really good, then it's irrational ... but it's not crazy. — Ted Leo

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. — Carl Sagan