Melveny Myers Quotes & Sayings

Fear enters the room and sits down in a chair and with a polite smile asks to open negotiations. — John Scalzi

When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive. — Ken Livingstone

Fancies find room in the strongest minds. Here, in a churchyard old as civilization, in the worst of weathers, was a strange woman of curious fascinations never seen elsewhere: there might be some devilry about her presence. — Thomas Hardy

A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which robs either one member or both of his fullest freedom and development. But, once the realization is accepted that, even between the closest human beings, infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky! — Rainer Maria Rilke

On the whole, there is nobody like one's own mother ... I wonder if, after all, mothers are not the best friends there are! — Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm. — Willa Cather

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people. — Gwen Stefani

Age is not our fault. — Goenawan Mohamad

One of these days d'you think you'll be able to see things at the end of the telephone?" Peggy said, getting up. — Virginia Woolf