Mencorner Quotes & Sayings

Behind us hung a Correggio St. Sebastian with the habitual Buchmanite expression on his face. "Awful tripe," said Uncle Matthew. "Fella wouldn't be grinning, he'd be dead with all those arrows in him. — Nancy Mitford

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam. — Tariq Ramadan

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good. — David Byrne

Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your head. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

There are certain men who, when faced with the choice of dying or doing the impossible, elect to live. This story is written in honor of their kind. — Elleston Trevor

Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away. — Boethius

I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile. — Dave Eggers