Pally Mount Quotes & Sayings

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title. — Marlo Thomas

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided. — Tim Kaine

Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs. — Larry Wall

You long for life and try to settle the problems of life by a logical tangle. And how tiresome, how insolent your outbursts are, and at the same time, how scared you are! You talk nonsense and are pleased with it; you say imprudent things and are constantly afraid of them and apologizing for them. You declare that you are afraid of nothing and at the same time try to ingratiate yourself with us. You declare that you are gnashing your teeth and at the same time you try to be witty so as to amuse us. You know that your witticisms are not witty, but you are evidently well satisfied with their literary value. You may perhaps really have suffered, but you have no respect whatsoever for your own suffering. You may be truthful in what you have said but you have no modesty; out of the pettiest vanity you bring your truth to public exposure, to the market place, to ignominity. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do. — Lester Bangs

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination. — Walt Disney

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself. — Charles Stewart Parnell

If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past. — Billy Graham

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed. — Haruki Murakami

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. — Barbara Ehrenreich

I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does — Julio Cortazar

A local church can die. This happens when all the old saints in a given place fall asleep and no young saints arise to take their place. Sometimes under these circumstances the congregation ceases to be a church, or there is no congregation left and the doors of the chapel are nailed shut. But such a condition, however deplorable, should not discourage us. The true church is the repository of the life of God among men, and if in one place the frail vessels fail, that life will break out somewhere else. Of this we may be sure. — A.W. Tozer

Can you do it today? Can you make it through today without bingeing? Just today, and tomorrow we'll reconsider? — Andie Mitchell

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers. — Alan Cumming