Materne North Quotes & Sayings

If you're gonna do something tonight that you'll regret tomorrow morning, sleep late — Henny Youngman

The joyous clamor in my mind drowned out the strange sound outside the car: a humming noise that was gathering speed and growing louder, a roar that was not the waves curling up the beach. — Padma Venkatraman

Reality was a drunk buying a lottery ticket, cashing out to the tune of seventy million dollars, and splitting it with his favorite barmaid. A little girl emerging alive from a well in Texas where she'd been trapped for six days. A college boy falling from a fifth-floor in Cancun and only breaking his wrist. Reality was Ralph. — Stephen King

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school. — Tatyana Ali

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers. — Tom Waits

Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn't make it less meaningful. They're both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we're given. — Ansel Elgort

Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that! — Mike Ditka

When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals. — Alexander Hanson

The night loves the stars as they play about the Darkness ... the day loves the light caressing the sun ... We love ... those who do ... because we live in a world requiring light and Darkness ... partnership and solitude ... sameness and difference ... the familiar and the unknown ... We love because it's the only true adventure ...
from Love: Is a Human Condition — Nikki Giovanni

On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their jobs. I see them; if I dared, I would smile at them. I think to myself that I am a socialist, that they are the purpose of my life, of my efforts and that they do not know it yet. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything that happens to the poor, the meek, the desolate, the mourners, the despised, happens to Christ. — Thomas Merton

Although, honestly, watching authors fistfight is like watching geese play Jeopardy. There's a lot of honking and squawking but no one ever gets to what they're supposed to be doing. — John Scalzi