Maxines Quotes & Sayings

You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark. — Wallace Arnold

If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent. — Morrissey

He gave a small shrug. "You and I both know that people see only what they want to see and believe what they want to believe. — Karen Lynch

Meditation means you start changing your inner world. You start removing dust from the inner world, you start removing all that is unnecessary in the inner world. You remove all that clutter, all the rubbish you are full of. Meditation means emptying yourself of all that the society has put inside you so that you can have a clean, clear vision, so that you can have a mirror-like quality. — Rajneesh

People will say, 'I really don't like romance,' or, 'I don't read it - at all!' So how do they know? Weirdly, I think that the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' phenomenon introduced women to romance who would never have read it. And that means that they then go on to read my books, and that would be great. — Ruth Glick

Do you answer a question directly?"
"Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again — Leigh Bardugo

She had been privileged to live outside of Time, to enter and leave at will, looting and manipulating, weightless, invisible. Now Time had claimed her again, put her under house arrest, taken her passport away. Only an animal with a full set of pain receptors after all. — Thomas Pynchon

I have no need for riches, Highness. I can't be bought either. — Anthony Ryan

I grow impatient at the length of your exordium. — Plato

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak. — John Knowles

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis. — Umberto Eco

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. — Richard Dawkins

People always say to me, "What's wrong with Hollywood? They don't want to make female-driven movies." And that's not where the problem lies. It lies with us, in society. When we make these movies, nobody goes to see them. — Charlize Theron

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results. — Zig Ziglar

In books, or work, or healthful play. — Isaac Watts