Maskerade 1934 Quotes & Sayings

"offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual" ... — Vladimir Nabokov

What you look like has nothing to do with what you think about yourself. — Linda Evans

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. — Marilynne Robinson

You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen. — Patrick Rothfuss

Then you'll feel your cheek scratched ...
A little kiss, like a crazy spider,
Will run round your neck ...
And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head
- And we'll take a long time to find that creature
- Which travels a lot ... — Arthur Rimbaud

If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA. — Emmitt Smith

It was the tale of a woman scorned, a woman locked in battle over her man, her money, her children, and her rights as a long-term wife. It was a morality tale of Biblical proportions, involving adultery and covetousness, all of it wrapped in a great big flag emblazoned with the almighty U.S. dollar - and concluding in what, on the face of it, appeared to be a most blood-curdling case of stark, premeditated murder in the first degree. Shooting them in their sleep? No soap opera writer could have concocted better. — Bella Stumbo

It has been explained in chapter 1 that the laws of physics, as we know them, are statistical laws.2 They have a lot to do with the natural tendency of things to go over into disorder. — Erwin Schrodinger

There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena. — Crixus

I don't have a complex mind. — Irving Harper