Mortamet Quotes & Sayings

I had forgotten how awful it was to be a woman alone
the leering glances, the catcalls, the offers of help which you dared not accept for fear of incurring a sexual debt. The awful sense of vulnerability. No wonder I had gone from man to man and always wound up married. How could I have left Bennett? How could I have forgotten? — Erica Jong

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that. — Craig Ferguson

The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with Jesus Christ, and carrying him to the top of a high mountain; and to the top of the highest pinnacle of the temple, and showing him and promising to him all the kingdoms of the world . How happened it that he did not discover America? or is it only with kingdoms that his sooty highness has any interest. — Thomas Paine

Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don't they know you can't get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one? — Connie Willis

The night court taught me to serve, and Delauney taught me to think; but from Melisande Shahrizai, I learned how to hate. — Jacqueline Carey

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. — Zaha Hadid

All right, cupcakes!" Coach Hedge yelled. — Rick Riordan

When I was a child, I wanted to be ... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie. — Jaime Winstone

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on. — Bob Balaban

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so. — Shelley Berman

Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false. — Karen Maitland

High-profile industry disruptions such as steel or car plant closures attract much media and political attention. — Anthony Pratt