Meermin Quotes & Sayings

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they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose. — Kurt Vonnegut

If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex) ... Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be. — Murray Bookchin

I said yes to so many things, from a sex change to gastric by-pass surgery, so it's always paid off for me. — Jim Carrey

On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming. — Edmund Wilson

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean De La Bruyere

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened — Arundhati Roy

A good king is a public servant. — Ben Jonson

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment. — Tim O'Brien

There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention. — Simon Mainwaring