Berberian Mercedes Quotes

#1. Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list

Mike Parry

#2. When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness ... it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

Robert Legato

#3. I learned that if we set our mind to things, we can accomplish almost anything no matter what the circumstances are.

Scott Haze

#4. When I was little, I thought it was terribly romantic, being half stardust, half Southern magnolia.

Suzanne Palmieri

#5. When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#6. The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Robert Henri

#7. The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.

Robert Ringer

#8. We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.

Carl Honore

#9. The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to uh-oh.

Ridley Pearson

#10. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Jack Kerouac

#11. Lula's borderline too much of a good thing in lots of ways. It isn't exactly that Lula is fat; it's more that she's too short for her weight and her clothes are too small for the volume of flesh she carries.

Janet Evanovich

#12. The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

Paul Farmer

#13. I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.

Ritchie Blackmore

#14. You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult place and tragic place, so it's more and more difficult for me to find the bright lights.

Michael Morpurgo