Mockingbird Symbolism Quotes & Sayings

Is that what the wine is for? To help you think?"
"Oh, the wine. The wine, Costis, is to help hide the truth. It doesn't work. It never has, but I try it every once in a while just in case something in the nature of the wine might have changed. — Megan Whalen Turner

America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something. — Chamillionaire

Nature abhors the vacuum tube. — John R. Pierce

The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly. — John Updike

First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft. — Terry Pratchett

To rise at six, to dine at ten,
To sup at six, to sleep at ten,
Makes a man live for ten times ten. — Victor Hugo

People don't hurt what they love. — Agnes Denes

The events of one's life take place, take place. How often have I used this expression, and how often have I stopped to think about what it means? Events do indeed take place, they have meaning in relation to things around them. — N. Scott Momaday