Mimemessage Quotes & Sayings

O gods, If any gods will listen, I deserve Punishment surely, I do not refuse it, But lest, in living, I offend the living, Offend the dead in death, drive me away From either realm, change me somehow, refuse me Both life and death!
-- Myrrha, before being transformed into a tree — Ovid

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page. — Steve Toltz

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write. — Atul Gawande

We all pick and choose and make our religion our own, do we not? — Helen Simonson

A guy from Bear Stearns had visited our class, thin and bald with a gold watch. He told us that if we were interested in getting into finance, we had better work hard and smart because a lot of machines were able to make investment decisions now, and in the future, computer programs would run everything. — Ned Vizzini

I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think i behaved in a paltry manner (Charles Darwin) — Abram Kardiner

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army]. — Scott Raab

Theology is the science of the divine lie. — Mikhail Bakunin

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly. — Agatha Christie

I'm the man that made wrestling famous. — Hulk Hogan

Keep the good memories and throw out the bad ones — Norhafsah Hamid

How do you think the Dharma is able to describe the death process in such detail? It's not a whole bunch of lamas sit around speculating on what might happen. It's because they actually go through it. Frequently. — David Michie