Malinali Marin Quotes

#1. Be not intimidated ... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

John Adams

#2. My mum's uncle was a sailor," said Nobby. "But after the big plague he got press-ganged. Bunch of farmers got him drunk, and he woke up next morning tied to a plough.

Terry Pratchett

#3. And what do you keep in such a pretty little box, sir? Snuff?'
Oh, no! It is a great treasure of mine that I wish Lady Pole to wear tonight!' He opened the box and showed Stephen a small, white finger.

Susanna Clarke

#4. What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero ... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.

Humphrey Bogart

#5. The waiter brought fresh-baked bread and cheese, a bottle of sparkling water for Annabeth, and a Coke with ice for me (because I'm a barbarian).

Rick Riordan

#6. Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny; it just means that's how your pipes are set up.

Laura Benanti

#7. I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.

Scott Turow

#8. We will never achieve holiness by what we do or don't do. Our only hope is to claim the holiness that Jesus died to give us: His holiness.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#9. Boys are stupid and girls are trouble.
Truer words were never spoken.

Michelle Hodkin

#10. The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

Edgar Bronfman Jr.

#11. God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.

Robert Collyer

#12. She understood that she must not write merely to win fame for herself or even for the higher motive of pure pleasure in her work. She must aim, however humbly, to help her readers to higher planes of thought and endeavor. Then and only then would it be worth while.

L.M. Montgomery

#13. Emerging from the caucus, Johnson told reporters that he had no plans to release his delegates; My name will stay as long as the American people are interested.

Robert A. Caro

#14. We must save ourselves by doing what is godlike and we will become godlike.

Pearl S. Buck