Messerli Quotes & Sayings

Since she obviously preferred me dead, she was pretending that I was. — Stephenie Meyer

Was contemplating my purpose - when the notion chose to arrive - that I'll be dead much, much longer - than I will ever be alive. — Joseph DiFrancesco

Asking questions about why I don't want kids is really none of your business, but at least it's a dialogue. — Jen Kirkman

Life is but a walking shadow — William Shakespeare

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy. — Stephen Cole Kleene

Their first free and frantic caresses had been preceded by a brief period of strange craftiness, of cringing stealth. — Vladimir Nabokov

I laughed as he twirled me around. "You can't dance."
"Maybe not, but you can't either!" He dipped me back so far that I almost toppled over, taking him down with me. He straightened up and rested his forehead against mine, laughing.
Warren was snapping his fingers in our direction. "Hey! Leave room for the Holy Spirit there, McNamara."
Nathan laughed and took a step away from me. — Elicia Hyder

IS THERE A DIFFERENCE between shame and guilt?" Anna asked. "Shame is psychic extortion," Doktor Messerli answered. "Shame lies. Shame a woman and she will believe she is fundamentally wrong, organically delinquent. The only confidence she will have will be in her failures. You will never convince her otherwise. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. — Chris Abani

A mistake made once is an oversight. The same mistake made twice? An abberation. A blunder. But a third time?" Doktor Messerli shook her head. "Whatever's been done has been done to an end. Your will is at work. You beg a result. A repercussion. A precedent has been established. You will get what you want. And there's no need to seek out these mistakes. For now it is they who seek you. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes. — Kristin Cashore

Maybe I am just a jerk. — Dan Harmon

Ghosts," Doktor Messerli continued, "aren't always the spirits of the human dead bound to the earth. A ghost can be the residual feeling that follows an act you have accomplished but feel bad about. Or the act itself. Something you've been or done that you cannot escape. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

Your scent is like a drug to me like my own personal brand of heroin. — Stephenie Meyer

A LONELY WOMAN IS a dangerous woman." Doktor Messerli spoke with grave sincerity. "A lonely woman is a bored woman. Bored women act on impulse. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little. — George Bernard Shaw

The only selfish life is a timid one. — Jeanette Winterson