Mercks Mission Statement Quotes & Sayings

Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Look at the openings of Fitzgerald stories, and Graham Greene, they're great at this. — Janet Fitch

No scientific or medical study is valid unless and until a heavy metal assay has been completed on the subject(s). — Richard Diaz

I want to kiss you so very badly, Rose. But I can't. And its killing me
-Mr. Stone — Kate Bloomfield

How could he not see all the ways he'd changed my life? How could he not know-
But he didn't. It was in the way he turned his head away, when I just stood there. In the way he closed his eyes. In the small, self-mocking smile that played around his lips that I didn't understand but knew couldn't be good. — Karen Chance

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child. — Liya Kebede

Set down among these lice, this is how I keep the mold from my brain and find release from Fortune's malice. I am content to have her beat me down this way to see if she won't become ashamed. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice. That keeps things new. — Dean Karnazes

Watch your world burn, light of my heart. Tomorrow we will find another one and burn that too. — E.K. Johnston

Winston knew better than to give a heartfelt synopsis of a grainy black-and-white film that had inadvertently touched his heart and caused him to empathize with a loafer-shod French boy, Doinel, the young, unloved Parisian, running toward the sea in the last reel. Winston had wanted to chase behind him, clasp him on the shoulder ... — Paul Beatty

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entitlement, and relevant only if right is relevant in this context, and it is not. A suicidal man cannot be concerned - and nor should he be - with questions of moral entitlement. (And how absurd.) His one concern should be whether self-execution will most expediently relieve his suffering. — Antonella Gambotto-Burke

This is the best worst time of my life. — Jewel