Pauline Von Mallinckrodt Quotes & Sayings

[T]he worst kind of nihilist - the kind who isn't even aware he's a nihilist. — David Foster Wallace

What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read a simple balance sheet? He would have been sacked long ago if He were managing a corporation, the things he allowed to happen ... — Rohinton Mistry

Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger. — Tacitus

Enjoy your ignorance while you can. — G. Norman Lippert

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of in-born talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind. — Maxwell Maltz

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books. — Margaret Mahy

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job. — Jeff Beck

I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens. — Osman Baydemir

Its powers?' Dallben answered with a sad smile. 'My dear boy, this is a bit of metal hammered into a rather unattractive shape; it could better have been a pruning hook or a plow iron. Its powers? Like all weapons, only those held by him who wields it. What yours may be, I can in no wise say. — Lloyd Alexander

There is a wonderful feeling of power when you're a director, but I don't think I need that, and I'm OK without it. — Alan Alda

I'm a good role model. I have an amazing marriage, and it will be long lasting. I think I'm a good mom. I could run for office, no problem, because there are no skeletons in my closet. — Elizabeth Banks

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear. — Mason Cooley