Mucks Quotes & Sayings

I own one movie by fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman, because I have to. You can't be a movie critic with a collection of six or seven hundred DVDs that includes everything from 'Tokyo Story' to 'Poison Ivy: The New Seduction' and not have a Bergman movie. — Steve Erickson

Sham ultrasound is beneficial for dental pain, placebo operations have been shown to be beneficial in knee pain (the surgeon just makes fake keyhole surgery holes in the side and mucks about for a bit as if he's doing something useful), and placebo operations have even been shown to improve angina. That's — Ben Goldacre

We see what we see because we miss all the finer details. — Alfred Korzybski

I have to admit we are locked in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor. To describe it takes many hundreds of thousands of words. Our muck is only a part of a much greater muck
the nation-state
which is itself the creation of that muck of mucks, human consciousness. Of course all these things also have a touch of sublimity
as when Moonbelly sings, for example, or all the lights go out. What a happy time that was, when all the electricity went away! If only we could re-create that paradise! By, for instance, all forgetting to pay our electric bills at the same time. All nine million of us. Then we'd all get those little notices that say unless we remit within five days the lights will go out. We all stand up from our chairs with the notice in ours hands. The same thought drifts across the furrowed surface of nine million minds. We wink at each other, through the walls. — Donald Barthelme

There was a big age difference between me and my brothers - about 10 years - so I was an only child for a long time. I used to hang out a lot on my own. I played a lot of weird games with a lot of imaginary people. I guess it's kind of roleplaying ... — Noel Fielding

Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them. — Edwidge Danticat

beads of sweat had collected between her breasts and her legs felt slick with moisture. — Kimberly G. Giarratano

In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is. — Idris Elba

Listen up, BIG SHOTS, BIGWIGS, and MUCKETY-MUCKS! What am I dressed for?" I'll ask.
Success!" they'll yell.
And what do clothes make?" I'll ask.
The man!" they'll answer.

Then it should come as no surprise when I say,
I GOT BIG PLANS! BIG PLANS, I SAY!"

I'm in!" says the mynah bird. — Bob Shea

Hope is the adrenalin of the soul. — Amy Tan

On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it. — Charles Barkley

If you're not seeing God at the climax, it's not worth doing. Sex is the bridge that connects heaven and earth. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins. — Jack White

It hurts, right? It's messy and complicated and it's like a tattoo that never ends. A million needles inking something on your heart that isn't even beautiful."
"The feeling you have in that moment right as you wake up, before your brain mucks it all up with thoughts and words? That very first feeling is where the truth lives."
"Because love always wins. Always. — Emma Scott

When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think 'Out Stealing Horses' sounds more American for Americans than it does in Norway, and still, it is all there, everything that I wrote. It's amazing. — Per Petterson

Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle. — Jill Badonsky

Vote like your nation's survival depends on it ... because it does. — Randi Rhodes

Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool. — Nicolas Cage