Marcom Quotes

#1. You've been four of the dearest, sweetest, goodest girls who ever went together through college,' averred Aunt Jamesina, who never spoiled a compliment by misplaced economy.

L.M. Montgomery

#2. Eros doomed! I doubt it ... eros seems to drive most relationships, and not just those between lovers. Erotic energy is a big powerful force, it shakes things up, causes people to break the rules, makes people do crazy things! Reason doesn't stand a chance in its face.

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

#3. One should know the value of Life better than to pout any part of it away.

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#4. Every book I've written has been different from the others, and each one seems to have its own timeline, requirements, and formal challenges.

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

#5. You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

Samuel Johnson

#6. Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

Charles Dickens

#7. He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.

James M. Barrie

#8. I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.

Jeff Landry

#9. To be brutally honest, I am a little bit of a Clint Eastwood nerd. Clint Eastwood who was the man who drew me into movies. When everybody else was watching Star Wars, I was watching Fistful of Dollars.

James Purefoy

#10. 5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.

Anonymous

#11. He wrote a novel, The Moon Is Down, for a precursor to the CIA,

John Steinbeck

#12. When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#14. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

Diane Ackerman

#15. I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But sports always have to involve running, jumping, or swinging your arms around. You don't get PE points for the smooth and rapid movement of the jaw.

Maureen Johnson

#16. Rise & set, ebb & flow; the rhythms of our world.

Cathryn Louis

#17. Staying true to my vision, to the word as it comes to me, to my own aesthetic judgments, even when they disagree with the majority culture, is very important to me, and I think important for every artist. It's what we have: our voice, our intuition, the truth as we understand and know it.

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

#18. As DH Lawrence said, the Protestant societies do dirt on sex, it is their dirty mind which aligns sex and a woman's genitals with the debased and soiled. This is something terrible, I think, and to be contended with head-on in art.

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

#19. It is perhaps true that that sort of sexual energy wanes over time - as the original impetus loses its luster. And then, I suppose, it's on to the next thing. But eros is eternal, like joy.

Micheline Aharonian Marcom