Mentioner Quotes & Sayings

You would be hard pressed, I would submit, to find a better pairing of occurrences to illustrate the divine and felonious nature of the human being - a species of organism that is capable of unravelling the deepest secrets of the heavens while at the same time pounding into extinction, for no purpose at all, a creature that never did us any harm and wasn't even remotely capable of understanding what we were doing to it as — Bill Bryson

In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they're frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner's fault. — Elizabeth McCracken

The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems. — Frithjof Schuon

I always find beauty in things that are odd & imperfect - they are much more interesting. — Marc Jacobs

He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence. — Orson Scott Card

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell! — Charles Spurgeon

Faces are the ledgers of our experience. — Richard Avedon

Woodrow don't mention nothing he can keep from mentioning. You couldn't call him a mentioner. — Larry McMurtry

There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy? — Lady Gaga

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society. — Alexis De Tocqueville