J Marsden Quotes

#1. Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.

Paul Marsden

#2. My work embodies little visions of the great intangible ... Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of Heaven and come back with the madness of splendor on him.

Marsden Hartley

#3. I've always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that next step - of making it, of a rite of passage.

James Marsden

#4. If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

John Marsden

#5. I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

Marsden Hartley

#6. We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

John Marsden

#7. Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.

John Marsden

#8. He carried Hell with him, as we all did, like a little load on our backs that we hardly noticed most of the time, or like a huge great hump of suffering that bent us over with its weight.

John Marsden

#9. Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

John Marsden

#10. The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

John Marsden

#11. We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel.

Samuel Marsden

#12. Do you think Lee's all right?'
'I'm praying my ass off.'
At that moment came the happiest sight I'd ever seen. A thin hand appeared out of the shovel, made a V sign or a peace sign-it was hard to tell in the dimness-and disappeared again.

John Marsden

#13. We're home already.

John Marsden

#14. There is no scientific evidence that doing over 10 percent of births with a cesarean improves the outcome for the woman or improves the outcome for the baby.

Marsden Wagner

#15. The places we visited were always richer and always more intricate than one could imagine. I loved to find out about the world, the good and the bad, in this way. For me, observing things with my own eyes was the only way. My wanderlust was also a wonderlust.

Luke F.D. Marsden

#16. Death comes walking across the countryside swinging that scythe, and he might get you or he might not.

John Marsden

#17. Heights don't bother me ... It's falling and cracking my skull that freaks me out.

Jason Marsden

#18. Excuse me, your attention please."
He waited until the whole floor had stopped what it was doing and turned to face him. For a split second his impulse control kicked in, but by then his mouth was fully engaged.
"For the record, Claire Marsden and I are not having sex.

Sarah Mayberry

#19. Go to hell," Sebastian muttered. "No doubt that was what you came to tell me tonight. If so, you're about a month too late."
"That was my intention," Westcliff admitted. "Now, however, I've decided to stay and have a snifter of brandy while you tell me what in God's name you're doing.

Lisa Kleypas

#20. Oh Ellie, doesn't it make your mouth water?"
"It makes me water all right," I said crudely. "But not from my mouth.

John Marsden

#21. I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

John Marsden

#22. My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

Marsden Hartley

#23. Dying's a fearful popular activity these days so we often double 'em up.

John Marsden

#24. If you really want a humanized birth, the best thing you can do is stay the hell out of the hospital.

Marsden Wagner

#25. My pen.' Funny, I wrote that without noticing. 'The torch', 'the paper', but 'my pen'. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It's about the most important thing I own.

John Marsden

#26. You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

Jason Marsden

#27. The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world
it is like operetta in prose
all so flowery and heavenlike.

Marsden Hartley

#28. We're all so curiously alone, but it's important to keep making signals through the glass

John Marsden

#29. I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre.

Jason Marsden

#30. What are you?" Lady Marsden asked, not bothering to hide her surprise. Obviously the lady was not accustomed to being caught snooping, let alone shut down twice.
"I have no idea,

Kady Cross