Membrillos Quotes & Sayings

The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground. — Jawaharlal Nehru

The Earl of Woolsey was indeed completely nude. He did not seem particularly perturbed by this fact, but Miss Tarabotti felt the sudden need to close her eyes tight and think about asparagus or something equally mundane. Coiled about him as she was, her chin wedged over one of his massive shoulders, she was being forced to look down, directly at a nicely round, but embarrassing bare, moon. And not the kind that caused werewolves to change either. Although it did seem to be changing aspects of her own anatomy that she would rather not think about. It was all a very heady - or bottomy? -experience. — Gail Carriger

For (strange as it may sound to many people, who tend to think of critics as being motivated by the lower emotions: envy, disdain, contempt even) critics are, above all, people who are in love with beautiful things, and who worry that those things will get broken. What motivates so many of us to write in the first place is, to begin with, a great passion for a subject (Tennessee Williams, Balanchine, jazz, the twentieth-century novel, whatever) that we find beautiful; and, then, a kind of corresponding anxiety about the fragility of that beauty. — Daniel Mendelsohn

You can't just vote for yourself. All the time, you're thinking what sort of country, what world, what future? — Gordon Brown

Most hedge funds fail: 90 percent of all the hedge funds that have ever existed have closed or gone broke. — John Lanchester

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful. — Edward Dahlberg

Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it. — Myles Munroe

IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there. — Phyllis Smith

People say if you keep making work and keep putting it out, better things will come. I think artists should never forget that. I think that's what you have to be committed to if you're an artist, that's where the good feelings come from. It's so easy to get caught up in other stuff, like the business part of it. If you just have to be aware, just keep putting it out there. — Kalup Linzy

That's like saying Firefly's Mal was just Han Solo. He wasn't. — Trent Jamieson

There are so many kinds of reality, and so many secret openings in the walls we think are mute. — Helene Cixous

Here's a guy that when he puts his contacts in, he can see better. — Frank Caliendo

My servants put you up to this." "And what if they did? Have you seen Bernadine? The woman wields a rolling pin all day long. I'm certainly not going to refuse her," Elle said. Severin released a bark of laughter. — K.M. Shea

When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair. — Christopher Hitchens