Merran Wrigley Quotes & Sayings

A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages ... — Hermann Hesse

When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to. — Matt Smith

A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A creature such as I, I know, has no right to love, and certainly no right to be loved. It is for such a creature to creep away into a corner and die and cease to make other people's lives a burden with her presence. — Stefan Zweig

Tonight I wish I had someone's body pressed up against mine. I am glad you are not here to see this. I — Trista Mateer

You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life. — George Foreman

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. — Lynn Abbey

Mort(e) is wonderful and weird, never saccharine and always startling. — Cat Rambo

it is
forbidden to love where we are not loved — Sharon Olds

THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER. — Isaac Asimov

'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't do anything. It just spins for no reason. Which is nice because it frees our wheel up to really pursue its dream: becoming a professional paddlewheel. — Kurt Braunohler

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. — Stephen Hawking

He that will not set himself proudly at the top of all things, but will consider the immensity of this fabric, and the great variety that is to be found in this little and inconsiderable part of it which he has to do with, may be apt to think that, in other mansions of it, there may be other and different intelligent beings, of whose faculties he has as little knowledge or apprehension as a worm shut up in one drawer of a cabinet hath of the senses or understanding of a man; such variety and excellency being suitable to the wisdom and power of the Maker.
1690 — John Locke

I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time. — Wole Soyinka

I don't think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if we could go to the moon tomorrow, because I think what really makes life interesting is the big question "Why?" — Malcolm Muggeridge