Merla Quotes & Sayings

It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know). — James Gleick

I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one in the room to see this circular motion except him. He saw it and frowned. — John Swartzwelder

There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?" — Benicio Del Toro

Don't strive to be beautiful from the outside, strive to be beautiful from the inside. Surface beauty will fade through time and age, but beauty from the heart, however, will never fade. — Emily Eaton

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. — Joseph Lancaster

I don't think I believe in any god," Merla said. "I think we make our own destiny. I think religion is superstition. Does that shock you?"
Agata shook her head and smiled. "If the Goddess is kind, then she will allow you your doubts, and embrace believers and unbelievers alike. If she is not, then the witches are mistaken, and we should not be worshipping her anyway. — Duncan Harper

If anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway. — Jan Carlzon

For every species on land, excepting only the weasel, there is a corresponding species in the water, — Louis Ginzberg

I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality. — Randeep Hooda

I don't think I would be very good at killing," Merla said.
"To be honest, nor do I. But you may have to."
A disturbing thought came to Merla.
"Faye," she asked, "have you killed a person?"
There was a moment's silence.
"Let's just say that I am familiar with the techniques. — Duncan Harper

But God doesn't change.'
'Men do, though.'
'What difference does that make?'
'All the difference in the world. — Aldous Huxley

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. — Plutarch

The dream which is not fed with dream disappears. — Antonio Porchia

He was one of those people who stared at you with a meaningful smile on their face, as if he was somehow intellectually and spiritually superior, when the fact was he was simply socially inept. — Kate Atkinson