Muggles Maxims Quotes & Sayings

It rarely snows because Antarctica is a desert. An iceberg means it's tens of millions of years old and has calved from a glacier. (This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russia Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.) I saw hundreds of them, cathedrals of ice, rubbed like salt licks; shipwrecks, polished from wear like marble steps at the Vatican; Lincoln Centers capsized and pockmarked; airplane hangars carved by Louise Nevelson; thirty-story buildings, impossibly arched like out of a world's fair; white, yes, but blue, too, every blue on the color wheel, deep like a navy blazer, incandescent like a neon sign, royal like a Frenchman's shirt, powder like Peter Rabbit's cloth coat, these icy monsters roaming the forbidding black. — Maria Semple

That's the thing with the young these days, isn't it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short. — Nick Hornby

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. — Albert Schweitzer

A turtle should take fright at the sound of a boiling pot. — Carol Kendall

A lot of professionals are crackpots. — Jenny Holzer

A net across the Little Trickle won't catch fish in the Watercress River. — Carol Kendall

Trout made into fish cakes is still trout. — Carol Kendall

The only good mushroom is a cooked mushroom. — Carol Kendall

I was bartending in Boston five, six nights a week, living in my grandmother's condo. By the way, I'm a really good bartender - that's the only skill I can confidently say I have. — Katie Nolan

Pride is nothing more than us highlighting us. — Kevin Thoman

One wood mouse can nibble a large hole. — Carol Kendall

In the world of fashion, nothing is ever comfortable. — Jay Manuel

Where there's fire, there's smoke. — Carol Kendall

No matter where There is, when you arrive it becomes Here. — Carol Kendall

My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age. — Margaret Mitchell

The worlds smallest package is a person wrapped up in themselves. — LeCrae

It is easier to lure a fish than to hit it over the head with a club. — Carol Kendall

When something happens, something else always happens. — Carol Kendall