Merante And Merante Quotes & Sayings

Nora Barnacle is not a very interesting person." So said Richard Ellmann, author of the definitive James Joyce biography, to Brenda Maddox, author of the only Nora Barnacle biography, who quoted him to me. — Jessa Crispin

No matter what you are currently able to do, creativity can make you capable of more. — John C. Maxwell

Love is like flowers blossoming in spring. When you think it ends, it'll grow again in time. — Primadonna Angela

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas. — Heather Mills

At any given time, there might be someone who's eight years old or 80 years old in the audience. Some nights there are a lot of girls in the audience, some nights not. It's so unpredictable, but I like that. — Patterson Hood

In a civilization of wage slaves, where people seek to survive more than to live, mountaineering is an enigma. — Erhard Loretan; Jean Amman

Lord Almighty your grace is all I need. — Lailah Gifty Akita

his privacy, his life, is still his — Hanya Yanagihara

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront. — Elliott Abrams

Obama has committed the U.S. to war on the Islamic State. To then allow within a month an allied enclave to be overrun - and perhaps annihilated - would be a major blow. — Charles Krauthammer

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully. — Mahatma Gandhi

[A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses — Tipu Aziz

The Internet, and the computers that made it possible, came from a rather dark place, much more missile than ballet, and they might yet return there. This book is about how and why that could happen, and what might be done about it. — Scott Malcomson

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness. — Richard Brookhiser