Mowatt Inc Quotes & Sayings

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. — Samuel Beckett

Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,
a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world. — Anna Cora Mowatt

Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture. — Anna Cora Mowatt

The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers. — David Sedaris

You never know when the devil might come calling. — Farley Mowat

Pity's tears are spontaneous. — Anna Cora Mowatt

Is it not in accordance with divine order that every mortal is thrown into that situation where his hidden evils can be brought forth to his own view, that he may know them, acknowledge them, struggle against them, and put them away? — Anna Cora Mowatt

Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing. — Taryne Mowatt

Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible. — Ronda Rousey

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on. — Anna Cora Mowatt

Lord Chesterfield designated ugly women as the third sex; how shall we place ugly men. — Anna Cora Mowatt

Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play? — Anna Cora Mowatt

Cliven Bundy is breaking the law. He's breaking the law and he wants all of us to pay for his cattle while he's ranting about people who are part of social welfare programs. — Christine Quinn

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined. — Morrissey

The more aspiration is partial realization. — Anna Cora Mowatt

What are the stories you want people to tell about you? — Steven Soderbergh

Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much. — Anna Cora Mowatt

Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession. — Anna Cora Mowatt

We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree. — Paul A. Volcker

I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen — Ron Suskind

There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure. — Anna Cora Mowatt

I am basically working 7 days a week. When I am not eating, sleeping, or working out, I am working on one of projects which I am just damned determined to finish. — Henry Rollins

The silliest things shatter you. A T-shirt discovered behind the washing machine. A toy that rolled under a cabinet in the garage, forgotten until someone drops something and goes to fetch it, and suddenly they're on the concrete floor sobbing into a dusty baseball mitt. — Victoria Schwab