Mostellar Quotes & Sayings

You think the whole electrical system is fried?" Chuck said, "Good possibility." "That would mean fences." Chuck picked up an apple as it floated onto his foot. He went into a windup and kicked his leg and fired it into the wall. "Stee-rike one!" He turned to Teddy. "That would mean fences, yes. — Dennis Lehane

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is ... " — Sinclair Lewis

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day. — Barbara Boxer

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

the famed French theorist Ernest Renan, who years ago defined the nation as "a group of people united in a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbors. — Reza Aslan

I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly. — Colin Farrell

I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream. — Elena Ferrante

I'm great at washing dishes and I'm great at cleaning the house and all that kind of stuff. I don't like doing it, but I'm ... — Sinead O'Connor

The big problem is that people don't believe a revolution is possible, and it is not possible precisely because they do not believe it is possible. — Theodore Kaczynski

Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. — Baruch Spinoza

Our code of conduct is definitive; it is not negotiable. It is found not only in the Ten Commandments but also in the Sermon on the Mount, given to us by the Savior when He walked upon the earth. It is found throughout His teachings. It is found in the words of modern revelation. — Thomas S. Monson

To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations. — Scott Cohen

I have loved, I have been loved; should I never love again I am fortunate. — James W. Nelson

That's the thing about this other side we're on. There is no landscape. If you want to see things in any kind of context, you have to pick a context. You have to take one from home. — Catherine Ryan Hyde