Monnin Mattingly Quotes & Sayings

I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up. — Julia Roberts

What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs? — Avram Davidson

Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us We do not need pity, nor do we need to be reminded that we are vulnerable. We must be treated as equals, and communication is the way we can bring this about. — Louis Braille

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. — William James

It has nothing to do with the book; it has everything to do with the story. — David A. Dutcher

And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile. — Louis Aragon

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well — W. Somerset Maugham

Concealed within the stones are frozen fires. Borne on vast waves of polychrome gas that attracted, discarded, formed, and reformed patterns of infinite complexity, the living sparks had taken their allotted places. They were burning before the beginning. They will burn after the end. Their fire is impervious to time. Time is a human concept. Creation is on a different scale. Every spark was a syllable spoken into silence, a miniscule portion of the great Word that became a roar of limitless power and exploded to create a universe. From chaos, cosmos. — Morgan Llywelyn

Of course, God is not necessarily anthropomorphic," she said. "Or what we would call, in our colossal egotism and sentimentality, 'a decent person.' But there is probably God. Satan, however, was man's invention, a name for the force that seeks to overthrow the civilized order of things. The first man who made laws - be he Moses or some ancient Egyptian king Osiris - that lawmaker created the devil. The devil meant the one who tempts you to break the laws. And we are truly Satanic in that we follow no law for man's protection. So why not truly disrupt? Why not make a blaze of evil to consume all the civilizations of the earth? — Anne Rice

Consider this only pointless ritual if it eases you and cools you to do so. Like church. — Stephen King

Culturally idolized beauty is not only foolproof, but potentially dangerous. — Francesca Lia Block

Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude ... have any possible claim on me. — Jane Austen