Mercelina Walker Quotes & Sayings

The easiest emotions for an author to evoke from readers are boredom and confusion. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get. — Robert Huber

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger

Imperialism is da woist thing I ever hoid! — Karl Marx

What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right. — Roy T. Bennett

I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me. — Shirley Jackson

Digital blood is not effective. — Bruce Campbell

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor. — Fred Saberhagen

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over. — Ramana Maharshi

In recalling my childhood I like to picture myself as a beehive to which various simple obscure people brought the honey of their knowledge and thoughts on life, generously enriching my character with their own experience. Often this honey was dirty and bitter, but every scrap of knowledge was honey all the same. — Maxim Gorky