Mulvany Nick Quotes & Sayings

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity. — Immanuel Kant

Don't touch me
i said
because i can't
handle
someone being
good to me. — David Levithan

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage. — Tod Machover

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning. — Craig Thompson

My last chance had vanished into itself like a snail coiling up into his shell.
Insidiously I had lost my grip, and now this was it. I thought all this without much emotion. I really didn't care anymore. I couldn't hang on anymore. I didn't have the guts to kill myself, but I didn't want it to continue. I walked a couple of blocks, empty, listless, and wished I could cry.
... The diabolic hope, the purposeful pulsing of blood, the flight into coherence allowed for some rationalizing an afterlife. A new theology was evolving, one that had a faith-in-death clause. It was evolved when I kicked a dead waterbug on the pavement. It was dried out, hollowed, emptied, like some kind of shell. Maybe, I thought, its body is a shell, maybe all bodies are shells. We hatch and die. Our spirit or something like that is the yoke: it lives the real life, the true life.
It wasn't comforting. — Arthur Nersesian

How can you really miss something when you never experienced it? — Augusten Burroughs

George Orwell knew when he wrote 1984: if you say a thing often enough, it will be accepted as truth. — Stephen King

If no cat has more to say, we should end this Gathering," Firestar meowed. "Fine by me," Blackstar replied. Onestar and Leopardstar nodded. — Erin Hunter

She felt like he was psychoanalyzing her. "I'm not hiding anything. I just don't show my emotions when they're not relevant to the situation. — Kimberly Rae Jordan

This view of literature as an aesthetic object that could make us 'better people' is linked to a certain idea of the subject, to what theorists have come to call 'the liberal subject', the individual defined not by a social situation and interests but by an individual subjectivity (rationality and morality) conceived as essentially free of social determinants. — Jonathan Culler

What drives your passion? — Lailah Gifty Akita

You change everything: your friends, schedule, dress, etc. Whatever they need to feel more comfortable, and more secure, you adjust because their peace is your peace. You start to watch for the "look" that tells you when they are getting agitated. You start to listen for what is being said in the silence. You cease to have a good time when you are out because you never know what is being held in the reserve for later. — Renair Amin