Myra Bennett Quotes & Sayings

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and 1885. Nineteen years, and he never got a raise - four dollars a day, six days a week. He was by then a washed-up writer, forgotten and poor. I used to find this subject heartbreaking, a waste: the greatest living American author was forced to spend his days writing tariff reports instead of novels. But now, knowing what I know about the sleaze of the New York Custom House, and the honorable if bitter decency with which Melville did his job, I have come to regard literature's loss as the republic's gain. Great writers are a dime a dozen in New York. But an honest customs inspector in the Gilded Age? Unheard of. — Sarah Vowell

In your sky, you are the brightest star.
Without you light, it's dark like tar.
So love yourself to enlighten others. — Debasish Mridha

He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie. — John Hiatt

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are. — Nhat Hanh

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it. — Henri Matisse

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils. — John Dryden

We are totally open kimono with regulators. — Jamie Dimon

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it. — Paul Kane

It was dangerous lunacy, but it was also the kind of thing a real connoisseur of edge-work could make an argument for. — Hunter S. Thompson

Too bad I don't want to be an actress. Or a reality TV-star or something,'Quinn said. 'This would be such a great opportunity.'
'Yes,' Mom said, regaining herself. ' It's a terrible shame you only want to be a marine biologist. I suppose it would be much more useful to have been asked out to dinner by a whale. — Jennifer E. Smith

In the womb of the Virgin Mary, God "becomes" human, receiving from her the body that makes possible the "passion" of God; while on the Cross, through the Jewish flesh given of Mary, the divine Son is truly crucified. In the same way, in the Eucharist, Christians receive the very flesh the Logos received of Mary and united to himself, that "truly life-giving flesh of God the Word himself." Only insofar as God receives the passability of human flesh does he become crucifiable and sacramentally givable. — Aaron Riches