Maurissa Gunn Quotes & Sayings

From a selection of his other works, we might think him variously courtly, cerebral, metaphysical, melancholic, Machiavellian, neurotic, lighthearted, loving, and much more. Shakespeare was of course all these things - as a writer. We hardly know what he was as a person. — Bill Bryson

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved. — Winston Churchill

Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. — Oscar Wilde

Can I also ... "remake" myself? Will I be able to become someone ... I can be proud of?! — Minari Endou

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Be dissatisfied with what is, but remain visionary of what can be done. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Just put down 9/11 ... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on. — Dennis Miller

Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time. — Gore Vidal

If I had to spend an hour getting ready every time I went somewhere, I wouldn't bother leaving the house. — Donna Joy Usher

We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season ... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market. — Aaron Spelling

Good reasons must of force give place to better. — William Shakespeare

Ambition aspires to descend. — Pierre Corneille

She handed him his cup of tea ... and he almost longed to ask her to do for him what he saw her compelled to do for her father, who took her little finger and thumb in his masculine hand, and made them serve as suar-tongs. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Believing in others is easy. It's believing in yourself that's the real challenge. — Giuseppe Bianco