Morcos Fej Quotes & Sayings

I believe the world is divided in three groups: givers, takers and the few that can balance both impulses. Giving and loving is a beautiful thing. It is the currency of compassion and kindness, it is what separates good people from the rest. And without it, the world would be a bleak place. If you are a giver, it is wise to define your boundaries because takers will take what you allow them to; all givers must learn to protect that about themselves or eventually, there is nothing left to give. — Tiffany Madison

Reading has as many functions as the human body, and ... not all of them are cerebral. — Anna Quindlen

I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight. — Jo Brand

I trust myself. I trust my instincts and my resolve. You just make me curious is all. — C.D. Reiss

I don't really understand why people are so interested in me, personally. I'm just a curator. I'm just telling people things I think are cool. — Elise Andrew

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own. — Esther Rolle

The problem with being ravished by books at an early age is that later rereadings are often likely to disappoint. "The sharp luscious flavor, the fine aroma is fled," Hazlitt wrote, "and nothing but the stalk, the bran, the husk of literature is left." Terrible words, but it can happen. You become harder to move, frighten, arouse, provoke, jangle. Your education becomes an interrogation lamp under which the hapless book, its every wart and scar exposed, confesses its guilty secrets: "My characters are wooden! My plot creaks! I am pre-feminist, pre-deconstructivist, and pre-postcolonialist!" (The upside of English classes is that they give you critical tools, some of which are useful, but the downside is that those tools make you less able to shower your books with unconditional love. Conditions are the very thing you're asked to learn.) You read too many other books, and the currency of each one becomes debased. — Anne Fadiman

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. — Henry Fielding

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system. — Immanuel Wallerstein

The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow. — Manny Trillo