Tritten Merrill Quotes & Sayings

I don't really care if my clothes are wrinkled or there's a stain on my shirt. Going out on the road, your clothes are dirty. — Avril Lavigne

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner. — Oprah Winfrey

Out of the woods my Master came,
Content with death and shame.
When Death and Shame would woo Him last,
From under the trees they drew Him last:
'Twas on a tree they slew Him
last
When out of the woods He came. — Sidney Lanier

I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain. — Jose Rizal

In love, anger is always false. — Publilius Syrus

We should employ our passions in the service of life," Sir Richard Steele wrote, "not spend life in the service of our passions. — Joan D. Chittister

I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in a song writing infrastructure - i.e., a verse, a chorus that I return to, a bridge that's something differenct, a chorus that I return to. — Mitch Albom

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature. — Hippocrates

Find the one who glows, with blood on the lips and fangs in the heart. — Roshani Chokshi

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter - as indissolubly as if they were conceived together ... . - The Crack-Up — F Scott Fitzgerald

Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them. — Robert Fisk

The German lives in a state of perpetual intestinal embarrassment due to an excess of beer and the pork sausages on which he gorges himself. — Umberto Eco

perhaps as profoundly as the original had in 1688.2 — Iain Macwhirter

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language. — Roger Ascham