Rikkert Mercelis Quotes & Sayings

I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed, — Aaron Lewis

Here
You always belonged here.
You were theirs, certain as a rock.
I'm the one who worries
if I fit in with the furniture
and the landscape.
But I "follow too much
the devices and desires of my own heart."
Already the curves in the road
are familiar to me, and the mountain
in all kinds of light,
treating all people the same.
and when I come over the hill,
I see the house, with its generous
and firm proportions, smoke
rising gaily from the chimney.
I feel my life start up again,
like a cutting when it grows
the first pale and tentative
root hair in a glass of water. — Jane Kenyon

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water conservationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule. If Mormons do not like my plays, let them write their own. If the Irish hate my Dublin stories, let them rent typewriters. If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture. If the Chicano intellectuals wish to re-cut my "Wonderful Ice Cream Suit" so it shapes "Zoot," may the belt unravel and the pants fall. — Ray Bradbury

I can smell her perfume, something flowery, too strong in this enclosed darkness. I wonder if this is temptation. If so, I am stone. — Joanne Harris

I feel a certain kinship with them. They don't compromise and they're not easy to know."
-Owen d'Arcy — Jane Feather

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial. — Herbie Mann

A broken heart, no matter how it is delivered, hurts. — Julie C. Donaldson

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election. — Glenn Greenwald

Most of our people have never had it so good. — Harold Macmillan

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring. — Conor Oberst

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor. — John Benjamin Hickey

As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable. — Clifford Geertz

It'd just been a relief to think that for a moment he might have been as lonely as me. — Sarah J. Maas

Just don't promise her the moon. She simply isn't the type that would buy such a story. She only cares about love and nothing else. Can you tell her you love her? — Natalie Ansard