Mizners House Quotes & Sayings

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option. — John Gilmour

You shouldn't send people out to do a job which you cannot afford to equip them to do. — Philip Hammond

The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them. — Octavio Paz

But before that day it felt like at least I had an ally on this boat. Now I have nothing. Well, I have a fat baby sea monster. But Bao doesn't tell jokes, and somehow I need that.

I hate how I need that. — Emily Skrutskie

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years. — Peter Brimelow

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience. — D.W. Griffith

There have been times in my adolescence where I gave up. I was like, 'I'm just never going to be pretty. I'm never going to be like one of those people on the front of magazines.' It always seemed really strange to me that the projection of how people are in advertisements looked nothing like the people who were actually buying them. You know what I mean? I never understood that mismatch, and now I really start to see that the people you see in the media are a lot more like people actually are. — Ronda Rousey

He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the complete and almost contemptuously final conquest of a world. — Isaac Asimov

There are kinds of human problems which really do seem, as our tidy expressions would have it, to "come to a head" and "demand to be dealt with." But there are also problems, often just as serious, which come to nothing that we can recognize or openly deal with. Some long-lived, insidious problems simply slip us off to one side of ourselves. Some gently rob us of just enough energy or faith so that days which once took place on a horizontal plane become an endless series of uphill slogs. And some - like high water working year after year at the roots of a riverside tree - quietly undercut our trust or our hope, our sense of place, or of humor, our ability to empathize, or to feel enthused, and we don't sense impending danger, we don't feel the damage at all, till one day, to our amazement, we find ourselves crashing to the ground. — David James Duncan

I did an episode on my talk show on cellulite, and I brought seven women into a dressing room at Nordstrom's in L.A., and we all sat and talked about our cellulite. — Tyra Banks

I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it was the perfect fit! — Aly Raisman

I needed a man," Call replied. "I was hoping he might turn out to be a fighter." "No, he's just a jailer," Billy said. — Larry McMurtry