Mellen Quotes & Sayings

Clutter is nothing more than a series of deferred decisions stacked on top of each other. — Andrew Mellen

Callum's basement had always been off-limits to me, and I wasn't dumb enough to believe the restriction was in place because that was where he hid my Christmas presents. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The surest way to shift feelings is to physically shift your body. Go get a glass of water, leave the room and walk around outside - anything to physically break the mood. — Andrew Mellen

I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila! — Polly Allen Mellen

If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents. — T.H. White

We seem to be in a continuing feedback loop of repeating a past that our country has yet to address. Our history is one of spectacular achievement (as in black senators of the Reconstruction era or the advances that culminated in the election of Barack Obama) followed by a violent backlash that threatens to erase the gains and then a long, slow climb to the next mountain, where the cycle begins again. The — Jesmyn Ward

Ne of the purposes for which God instituted prayer may have been to bear witness that the course of events is not governed like a state but created like a work of art to which every being makes a conscious contribution, and in which every being is both a means and an end. — C.S. Lewis

I don't want you to be interested in my life. I want you to be interested in me. — Nicci French

Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have turned a corner on the movie set of reality and have discovered the boards propping up the two-dimensional monuments of human history. The movement of humanism has reached its limit, and now at that limit it is breaking apart into the opposites of mechanism and mysticism and moving along the circumference of a vast new sphere of posthuman thought. — William Irwin Thompson

I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against. — Jane Roberts

I am fat and I don't care. — CM Punk

Style doesn't have seasons. — Polly Allen Mellen

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends? — Edmund Burke

Because he's just so, so," Peter paused looking for the right word, "so French! — Jack Lewis Baillot

An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two. — Arthur Mellen Wellington

Great triumphs of engineering genius - the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail - ... are rather invention than engineering proper. — Arthur Mellen Wellington

Finding love is like making creme brulee. It may take a few tries before you get it right. — Crystal Woods

I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life. — Polly Allen Mellen

Meditate upon yourself and you'll find bliss. — Abhijit Naskar

I don't know if I've ever written anything that's not a bill! I do write stories but I don't put a stamp on them. I wrote a story for my wife over Christmas and gave it to her as a present because she asked me to, but I don't put a stamp on things and send them to people. — Channing Tatum

Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream. — Oscar De La Renta