Melfest Quotes & Sayings

So now you must choose ... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable - bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder ... — Jostein Gaarder

I got ya, darlin'." "I'm not your darling. — Karen Witemeyer

If it's going to be, it's up to me. — Lenny Krayzelburg

I didn't realize people tip for take-out. — Curtis Granderson

We become our decisions over time. We choose to love, or we can choose to hate. We can choose to forgive, or we can choose to take revenge; to have hope, or we can choose to fall into despair. But, regardless, we become our choices we make over time. p. 318 — David LeRoy

From the days of biplanes and silk scarves, the aviator has been the archetype of masculine glamour. Aviators have personified national ideals, from French elan to Soviet party discipline. They've inspired lust and admiration. They've turned sunglasses and short, utilitarian leather jackets into fashion statements. — Virginia Postrel

If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive! — George S. Patton

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house. — Janis Joplin

I'm not a negative person, but every role I go for I don't think I'll get. — Amy Nuttall

Not everyone can or will love you. You could run a cotton candy and unicorn farm and someone's gonna think you're an asshole. Everyone's fighting their own battle and it often has nothing to do with you. — Kathryn Budig

The people who seem to need love the least are the ones who usually need it the most. — Kate McGahan

There's a balance. Time and place for everything. — Chris Sharma

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now. — Lara Flynn Boyle

You kind, you smart, you important. — Kathryn Stockett

If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality. — Alfred Austin