Mortificado In English Quotes & Sayings

A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social networking sites. — Jimmy Fallon

But I have never ceased to think of that girl. I have written to her, but I can not direct the epistle because her name is one of those nine-jointed Russian affairs, and there are not letters enough in our alphabet to hold out. I am not reckless enough to try to pronounce it when I am awake, but I make a stagger at it in my dreams, — Mark Twain

We interpret the world through stories ... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps. — Paula Rego

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. — Bette Davis

Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time. — Alice Hoffman

The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. — Frank McCourt

I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about. — Bruce Eric Kaplan

We're the expendable half of the species, ladies. We're designed to take down the bad guys, to save the children. We're your weapons, your attack dogs. We're ready to i.e. taking down the threats against you. There isn't much call for this in the twenty-first century, but this is our baggage. We're here to solve your problems, and when you have no need for our upper-body strength, raw courage, or foolish daring, we can be at a loss. — Shawn T. Smith

Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being. — Amitav Ghosh

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain? — Aeschylus

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less. — Jean De La Bruyere

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me! — Cy Coleman