Mrljek Quotes & Sayings

In Wisconsin they have deep-fried cheese curds, which taste like French fries and heaven had a baby. — Jim Gaffigan

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much. — Colm Toibin

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out. — Candace Bushnell

The very violence of a revolution may make the public grand and splendid for a moment. It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes. Behind the barricade there may be much that is noble and heroic. But what is there behind the leading-article but prejudice, stupidity, cant and twaddle? — Oscar Wilde

Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies. — Jonathan Levine

Though every dead man is a reduction of their number, the thousand POWs who first left Changi as Evans' J Force - an assortment of Tasmanians and West Australians surrendered in Java, South Australians surrendered at Singapore, survivors of the sinking of the destroyer, HMAS Newcastle, a few Vics and New South Welshmen from other military misadventures, and some RAAF airmen - remain Evans' J Force. That's what they were when they arrived and that's what they will be when they leave, Evans' J Force, one-thousand souls strong, no matter, if at the end, only one man remains to march out of this camp. They are survivors of grim, pinched decades who have been left with this irreducible minimum: a belief in each other, a belief that they cleave to only more strongly when death comes. For if the living let go of the dead, their own life ceases to matter. The fact of their own survival somehow demands that they are one, now and forever. — Richard Flanagan

I surround myself with bliss. My home is a blissful oasis that nourishes me and brings me joy. — Amy Leigh Mercree

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy. — Jo Stafford

Where I'm coming from is that nothing I do is from a sense of obligation. — Mike Vallely

He could never care about you. He sees you in the same way they see all of us: ruthless, cruel and power hungry." He laughed callously. "I guess we're about to prove them right. — Heather James

F1 teams need a driver who will consistently set lap times that are 100 percent on the edge. — Jean Alesi

Directors always used to be like the police to me - the enemy, the people to tell me what to do when I didn't want to do it. But I've lived with one for a while now and I guess I can put myself more in their position. You shouldn't be too sympathetic to them. — Helen Mirren

'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else. — Claire Tomalin