Mikey Palmice Quotes & Sayings

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing. — Harold Prince

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own. — Jonathan Swift

Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing. — Sterling W. Sill

I always have this strange feeling that I am this very old woman laying down about to die. You know, that my life is just her memories, or something. — Celine

Give me a book," she said. "A book of sermons, anything."
"What do you want a book for?"
"I want words. I've got to have more words. I was kept stupid on purpose. — Hilary Mantel

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade. — Leo Tolstoy

Namorita: Why are you horning in on my action? Orka's an Atlantean criminal. I had the situation perfectly under control.

Nova: Yeah, I could tell that from the way you were hitting his fist with your face.

-- New Warriors (Vol 2) #0 — Jay Faerber

My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement. — Amy B. Lyman

Restaurants and chefs have become followed by such a broad swath of the public, in a way that used to be reserved for sports stars, movie stars, and theater actors. Restaurants are in the firmament of today's common culture. — Danny Meyer

There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Methyl alcohol, they called "wood spirit"; ethyl alcohol, "wine spirit." Even today, alcoholic beverages are frequently referred to as "spirits." (Modern Arabs, from whose language the word "alcohol" was taken, call ethyl alcohol "spirit" from the English. This is a queer exchange.) — Isaac Asimov

Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color - it's a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown ... I've tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar. — Sylvia Plath

Satan's church is here below; Up to God's free church I hope to go. — Harriet Jacobs

He felt like throwing a hissy fit right there in the truck. Go out with me not her! She doesn't care about you! I do. Can't you see that! I'm crazy about you! I fuckin' love you! — A.E. Via

We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too ... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina. — Binyavanga Wainaina