Menckens Great Quotes & Sayings

Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I'd always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood. — Alice Hoffman

I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times. — Miranda Richardson

I try to surround myself with a good support system. Whether that's other creators or my family or my friends, or even my viewers, who encourage me just as much as I might encourage them and they're just as much a part of my life as they let me be a part of theirs. — Tyler Oakley

The government's rationale here is beautiful in its simplicity. American criminals have constitutional rights not because they are natural-born Americans but precisely because they are criminals. Deportations, however, are not part of the criminal justice system. "Removal proceedings," wrote the circuit judge in the Gutierrez-Berdin case, "are civil, not criminal, and the exclusionary rule does not generally apply to them." So the undocumented alien who kills a room full of Rotarians with an ax has a right to counsel, a phone call, and protection against improper searches. The alien caught crossing the street on his way to work has no rights at all. Strangest — Matt Taibbi

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them. — Norman Foster

May our gratitude find expression in our prayers and our service for others, and in our commitment to live wholly for Christ. — Billy Graham

Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head? — Elizabeth Gilbert

Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and wrote the stories "out loud" together. We yelled at each other and made each other laugh. It was a lot of fun. — Kate DiCamillo

American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions. — Zubin Mehta

Love her?" I cried. "Why he just loves her to death! He turns so white, and he suffers so, when her pain is the worst. Love her? And she him? Why, don't you remember the other day when he tipped her head against him and kissed her throat as he left the table; that he asked her if she 'loved him yet,' and she said right before all of us, 'Why Paul, I love you, until I scarcely can keep my fingers off you! — Gene Stratton-Porter

My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother? — Jackie Collins

However, family and friends can be in a financial or emotional conflict of interest with the welfare of an incompetent patient. — Edmund D. Pellegrino

I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere. — Elizabeth Olsen

Never pick a fight with a guy in a bartender's uniform. Never! — Ryohgo Narita