Mortmains Quotes & Sayings

Why would affluence make him mad?"
"Maybe he's mad that this is as good as it gets. Your big house. His good school. I think it's very difficult for kids these days, in a way. The country's very prosperity has become a burden, a dead end. Everything works, doesn't it? At least if you're white and middle class. So it must often seem to young people that they're not needed. In a sense, it's as if there's nothing more to do. — Lionel Shriver

Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do. — Anita Silvey

CAN is 100 times more important than IQ — Max Lucado

I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way. Truth be told, I couldn't. — Walter Murch

Laughter is higher than all pain. — Elbert Hubbard

We Germans are so good at penalties because we have had to rebuild our country twice. — Jurgen Klinsmann

We all have scars and ghosts of our own. Some drove us to the Scarlet Guard, and some were because of it. I know the sting of both. — Victoria Aveyard

I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness. — Paul Watson

Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes. — Walter Isaacson

Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people. — Susanna Clarke