Mcelhinney Toronto Quotes & Sayings

My theory was that readers just thought they cared nothing but the action; that really, although they didn't know it, they cared very little about the action. The things they really cared about, and that I cared about, were the creation of emotion through dialog and description. The things they remembered, that haunted them, were not for example that a man got killed, but that in the moment of his death he was trying to pick a paper clip off the polished surface of a desk, and it kept slipping away from him, so that there was a look of strain on his face and his mouth was half open in a kind of tormented grin, and the last thing in the world he thought about was death. He didn't even hear death knock on the door. That damn little paper clip kept slipping away from his fingers. — Raymond Chandler

The end of the world hurts like a bitch. — Graham McNamee

Love always makes those eloquent that have it.

---From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad II — Christopher Marlowe

It's dangerous, son."
"What's dangerous?"
"When a man goes outside his house to look for peace. — Lorraine Hansberry

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him — H.L. Mencken

And I can't help but be amazed at the power such small, unassuming animals wield over us; they so easily break down our defenses. — Tahereh Mafi

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot — John Calvin

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp. — Carson McCullers

No need to feel shame for what you are. — Deyth Banger

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate. — Mike Davidson

A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in a Muslim family, the honor of the man is between the legs of a woman. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I'm a Jehovah's Witness. — Prince