Mordaces Quotes & Sayings

Looking back, I wonder why a gangster movie kidnapped my life. The Godfather had nothing to do with me. I was a feminist, not Italian, and I went to school at Montana State. I had never set foot in New York, thought ravioli came only in a can, and wasn't blind to the fact that all the women in the film were either virgins, mothers, whores, or Diane Keaton. — Sarah Vowell

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself. — John Connolly

The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief. — Sue Monk Kidd

The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a transcendent power to which both we and the world are subject is hampered and obscured by the objectifying character of its assertions. — Rudolf Bultmann

When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the beginning of time. — Jascha Heifetz

By wine eating cares are put to flight.
[Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.] — Horace

Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number. — Jaclyn Moriarty

I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.' — Leo Burnett