Megginson Round Swivel Quotes & Sayings

You cannot petition the Lord with prayer. — Jim Morrison

In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly into his eyes and feel his heart beating with red blood; in a world where a social cigar or a cup of tea together means more than legislative halls and magazine articles and speeches, - one can imagine the consequences of the almost utter absence of such social amenities between estranged races, whose separation extends even to parks and streetcars. — W.E.B. Du Bois

This two-bit bar, this worn-out town, just a speck in the middle of a lonely grassy prairie with the stony hills beyond, the small fix-it-yourself house I'd bought for us - that was all ours, our world, our high life. It wasn't name-brand, shiny, or white picket fences, but none of that mattered. As long as we were together, it was good, it was clean, it was ours. — Cat Porter

The home marks a child for life. — Howard G. Hendricks

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling. — Iris Murdoch

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses. — Isaac Marion

For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we'd eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we'd save some of the dessert and play with it while making out. — Karen McDougal

Human brains have three layers of programming. Each layer adds a twist or turn to sexual preferences and tendencies. The first layer is genetic progamming from the inherited genes. The second involves environmental influences that impact genes and their expression. The third level deals with the way we "fill in the blanks" as social and cultural beings. This level can become a feedback loop that influences the inherited genes by influencing with whom we choose to have sex. — Darrel Ray

I have been an elated reader of all the great Russian novelists and short-story writers since my early twenties and I have often written about them, though I know no Russian and have never been to Russia. The lure for me (I realize now) lay in John Bayley's wonderful phrase - I believe in his learned introduction to Pushkin's Letters - that the "doors of the Russian house are wide open": we see people who speak out in the lost hours of the day as it passes through them. — V.S. Pritchett

So what was it like?" she asked. "Having your boyfriend die? Um, it sucks." "No," she said. "Being in love. — John Green

The final explanation, as ridiculous as it sounded, was that the owner of the hat had traveled from 1939 only to bump into Kate on the walkway of the Valkyrie. — Manel Loureiro