Melveny Quotes & Sayings

She'd always perceived the world to be against her. Happiness was never to be trusted. And yet I thought vaguely, neither was sorrow. Didn't each come to season in the other? — Regina O'Melveny

The impetuous wind can ignite the fire or put it out. — Regina O'Melveny

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix. — Alexander Woollcott

I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content. — Cecil Balmond

The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves. — Henry B. Eyring

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. — Edward H. Harriman

Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly. — Regina O'Melveny

It was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare authority of the pages. "Here, do you see this marvelous book, the skins of 182 sheep," he once pronounced as he slapped his hand down on the stamped leather cover boards. "The book is a flock, a jewel, a cemetery, a lantern, a garden, a piss pot; pigments ground of precious minerals, charred bone, lamp soot, rare plants and insects. Pigments formed at the corrosion of copper plates suspended above urine. — Regina O'Melveny

I usually record all through the night, but I'm known for waking up early in the morning. Even if I had recorded till 3 or 4 in the morning I might wake up at 9 or 10. I never sleep till 1 o clock. — Gucci Mane

I felt that I was burning underwater. — Regina O'Melveny

I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists. — Regina O'Melveny

I've since come to believe that the world is populated by multitudes of women sitting at windows, inseparable from their surroundings. I myself spent many hours at a window on the Zattere, waiting for my father's return, waiting for my life to appear like one of those great ships that came into the harbor, broad sails filled with the wind of providence ... I'd grown transparent as the glass through which I peered, dangerously invisible even to myself. It was then I knew I must set my life in motion or I would disappear. — Regina O'Melveny

Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we a deafening. twisting flock of birds that could never fall to earth. — Regina O'Melveny

Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They're concerned about a plundering country. They're concerned about a decaying, dying country. — Rush Limbaugh

The recitation of grievances was strange balm. — Regina O'Melveny

One must stand apart in order to truly know another. — Regina O'Melveny

It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground? — Alfred Polgar

Children want to feel as though their life matters. — Asa Don Brown

It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit. — Regina O'Melveny

For it was beautiful upon our tongues and we traced all the lines to the heart. — Regina O'Melveny

It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which sounds quite cowardly, perhaps, but it was the first manifestation of what is currently a really big issue: how political correctness defines the limits of what you can do. In that sense, it was super-exciting and maybe the most magical project we did, but at the same time fraught with mixed feelings. — Rem Koolhaas

Hope was a plain thing for her, common as bread. — Regina O'Melveny