Masketeers Quotes & Sayings

When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too. — Marlene Dietrich

Yes, September, We have all of us got it jumbled up. You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That is why time is a rotten jokester and no one aught to let him in to dinner. — Catherynne M Valente

Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement. — George Herbert

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress. — Justin Amash

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started. — Sol LeWitt

It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not. — Emily Haines

I don't discount that in the end, everything I do, say, write and am will amount to a whole lot of not much; I just don't think it's a relevant metric. The relevant metric is: Have I constructed a life that gives me happiness, allows me to give happiness, and allows for this life to have meaning within its admittedly limited context? If I am succeeding in this particular metric, I think I'm doing pretty well. — John Scalzi

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart. — John Connolly

But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety. — Edwin Percy Whipple

If I am prime minister, we will come out of the European Union, and part of that will be control of free movement. — Theresa May

I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations. — Vladimir Nabokov

Bugs Bunny is my muse. — Billy Collins

Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community for example, another country or historical period ... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible. — Richard Rorty