Messerives Quotes & Sayings

There are faint stars in the night sky that you can see, but only if you look to the side of where they shine. They burn too weakly or are too far away to be seen directly, even if you stare. But you can see them out of the corner of your eye because the cells on the periphery of your retina are more sensitive to light. Maybe truth is just like that. You can see it, but only out of the corner of your eye. — Janna Levin

We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right. — Donna Edwards

Organizing atheists is like hurding cats — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The hat seemed to isolate Luster's skull, in the beholder's eye as a spotlight would, in all its individual planes and angles. So peculiarly individual was its shape that at first glance the hat appeared to be on the head of someone standing immediately behind Luster. — William Faulkner

Kell used to feel like a possession. Now he felt like a prisoner. — Victoria Schwab

In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor. — Tina Fey

People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December. — Ogden Nash

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community. — Henry David Thoreau

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly. — Kahlil Gibran

This is my world. You step into my world, you will step out a loser - I guarantee it. — Frank Shamrock

I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors. — Kyle MacLachlan

I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave home and explore. I've been using the Internet since I was 13, so I could see there was this whole world out there. — Kesh

The cunning waste their pains;
The wise men vex their brains;
But the simpleton, who seeks no gains,
With belly full, he wanders free
As drifting boat upon the sea. — Cao Xueqin