Mariya Russell Quotes

#1. There is never an idea so true that it's wrong to criticize any argument that supports it.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#2. If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.'

Robert Krulwich

#3. An interesting thing about the beginning of our friendship and professional collaboration [with Tina Fey] was that the improve scenes we would do together were basically dramatic and not funny at all.

Amy Poehler

#4. You talk so sweet I bet you have to suck on salt for half and hour to get the taste of sugar out of your mouth.

Orson Scott Card

#5. I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression.

Nick Carter

#6. Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy.

Duane Elgin

#7. Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

William Shenstone

#8. Don't tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.

Steve Maraboli

#9. I didn't know you were such a light-weight. I would have cut you off, Love Lump."
I make a face, digging the bottle from the couch cushions. "Light-weight? This motherfucker is gone. Light-weight. Come lay on me. I'll slap your sweet pussy swollen.

Pella Grace

#10. A really good detective never gets married.

Raymond Chandler

#11. Knowledge is not the thing to boast or to brag!
It's about how you can make influence on lives without uttering a single word.

Prerak Trivedi

#12. Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised.

Mo Ibrahim

#13. The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.

William J. Clinton

#14. The chilly mist settled down around them, sinking like midnight into his bones. His arm hurt, and his heart felt like an open wound in his chest.

Laura Kinsale