Mevolents Quotes & Sayings

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

We have to do away with a false and misleading dualism, one which abstracts man on the one hand and technology on the other, as if the two were quite separate kinds of realities ... Man is by nature a technological animal; to be human is to be technological ... When we speak of technology, this is another way of speaking about man himself in one of his manifestations. — Daniel Callahan

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do. — Billy Crystal

He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us. (p. 70) — Rabih Alameddine

The big trunk of the umbrella pine looms outside the window, living its two lives - the upper world of needles and stems, the lower world of roots and soil. — Anthony Doerr

Pointing your fingers at someone else takes away power from you, — Roselyn Brown

The most punk-rock thing you can do in L.A. is to say 'George Bush is fucking awesome' instead of talking about how lame it is that he's fighting for oil. — Trey Parker

I'm too old for Led Zeppelin. — Robert Plant

Put the ballast of biblical truth
in the belly of our little boats,
lest the crashing waves of calamity
of these changing times
cause us to capsize in the sea of trouble — John Piper

I think country has the biggest melodies ever. — Sean Kingston

I was young and fearless in those days, but always enjoyed riding at Cartmel. They used to call me 'Cartmellor', probably because I kept coming back on a stretcher. — Stan Mellor

At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while. — Paula McLain

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox. — Marilyn Monroe