Menckens American Quotes & Sayings

What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own? — John Searles

So it goes when you travel for the sake of something to say. Your eyes go weak. — Fredrik Sjoberg

I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding. — Meghan Markle

The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing. — Sakyong Mipham

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved. — Mickey Rourke

There is no Past, so long as Books shall live! — Bill Vaughan

In the event that armed men of any sort enter the building, watch their feet closely. — Padgett Powell

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done. — Henry Rollins

We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it's tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche. — K.A. Laity

It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year. — Edward Snowden

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs. — Tony Kushner

I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters. — Joan Rivers

Look to the moon when you swing, he instructed. That's what you want. A ball that disappears into it. One that goes to the moon and past. A moonshot. — Alessandra Torre

Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilderness ere you build a house within the city walls. — Kahlil Gibran

You made me feel gold,flowing too.I love you.Ultraviolet Remarkey-able. — Jennifer Niven