Mild Mannered Pate Quotes & Sayings

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a marble statue of a man with his children near him, and the man has such desperation on his face and the children at his feet appear to be clinging, begging him, while he gazes out toward the world with a tortured look, his hands pulling at his nouth, but his children look only at him, and when I finally saw this, I said inside myself, Oh.
I read the placard, which let me know that these children are offering themselves as food for their father, he is being starved to death in prison, and these children only want one thing - to have their father's distress disappear. They will allow him - oh, happily, happily - to eat them.
And I thought, So that guy knew. Meaning the sculptor. He knew.
And so did the poet who wrote what the sculpture has shown. He knew too. — Elizabeth Strout

To be perfectly honest, I'm competitive. — Mike White

I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field ... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end. — Michelle Rodriguez

Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice. — Frederick Lenz

A lot of us have scars ... the biggest difference between you and the rest of us is you haven't learned to live with yours yet. — Anne Bishop

No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape. — Miley Cyrus

Speed bumps in relationships are temporary rises in the road that signal you to slow down, step back, and reassess the situation. — Nicole Huggins

I am burning. I have to live, I have to sing, I want to transform myself into a thousand different characters and carry their life with me onto the stage where it's so bright and so dark at the same time, just knowing there are three thousand people out there longing to be swept away by the passion that's about to flood out from scarlet curtains, to this I consecrate my body and my soul, I can give no more than all of myself, I feel my heart is a throbbing engine and my voice is the valve, like a wailing train, it has to sing or blow up, there's too much fuel, too much fire, and what am I to do with this voice if I can't let it out, it's not just singing. I am here as a speck, but I don't feel scared or about to be blown away, I feel like all New York is a warm embrace just waiting to enfold me. I am in love. But not with a person. I am passionately in love with my life. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it. — David Guterson

It's true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does. — Barbra Streisand

longer than it was necessary or productive to do so. — Iyanla Vanzant

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear. — Edmund Waller