Menelik Watson Quotes & Sayings

Home is where
'I know you',
'I accept you',
'I forgive you',
and 'I love you'
are most likely to be heard. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as became American officers and seamen. — Oliver Hazard Perry

My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. See Catullus 200:5. — Thomas Campion

(We wrote "Sweet Child o' Mine" later, and the "where do we go now" coda of that song actually was just sort of tacked on, which is one of the reasons we didn't anticipate it being a hit - or even a single, for that matter.) — Duff McKagan

Only the best will do? In this age of unlimited variety, rather the opposite is true: 'good enough' is the new optimum — Rolf Dobelli

Making a lie complicated... doesn't sound true.

(BackStrom Season 1 episode 7) — Deyth Banger

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook - that prissy little virtue, Temperance - for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended. — Geoffrey Wood

Because I think I saw you, yesterday morning when I woke up. I think my eyes worked again, just for a moment, and you were the light I saw. — N.K. Jemisin

The moment I see her, there's a rumbling in my chest, and my mouth is as dry as a desert. — Haruki Murakami

He just couldn't believe that he could do it. But what he didn't know was whether he couldn't believe it or that he didn't want to believe it. — Brian Cleary

Everyone puts his fault on the Times. — George Herbert

It is likely your own eyes were closed when you were born, so that you left the safe place of your mother's womb - or, if you are a seahorse, your father's yolk sac - and joined the treachery of the world without seeing exactly where you were going. — Lemony Snicket

You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me. — Toni Morrison

Mr Cobb was my escort. Such a nice escort, Mr Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should see him sober. I mean, just for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten - when Larry Cobb was sober. — Raymond Chandler

But that (physical attractiveness), as the late great Irish poet and philosopher of beauty John O'Donohue helpfully distinguished, is glamour. I've taken his definition as my own, for naming beauty in all its nuance in the moment-to-moment reality of our days: beauty is that in the presence of which we feel more alive. — Krista Tippett