Mamuts Quotes

#1. On the question - which is more important for a story-plot or character. "It's a bit like asking whether your need your left or right leg. Maybe you have a preference, maybe one is stronger (for you) but really, you need both." (on Facebook)

Jeanette O'Hagan

#2. I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It's about equality and equal treatment. It feels like a gut instinct.

Hattie Morahan

#3. Sorry, but I'd rather sit home eating Vienna sausage straight from the can watching Andy Griffith reruns than be forced to dine with that Oompa-Loompa!

Piper Faust

#4. Reading trumps anything.

Belle Aurora

#5. Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

Pauline Kael

#6. Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

Bob Proctor

#7. If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

Brad Sherman

#8. We cannot change what has happened. We go on from where we stand. Not even Necessity knows all ends.

Jo Walton

#9. Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

Sidney Hook

#10. The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love ... the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. We all face adversity and tragedy and need inspiration and motivation to Keep Rolling.

Steve Gleason

#12. I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.

Mindy Kaling

#13. The history of the world is, sadly, not a pretty poem. It offers little variety, and it is nearly always the unpleasant things that are repeated, over and over again.

E.H. Gombrich

#14. I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.

John Wooden