Mark Rayner Quotes

#1. Speech isn't for agony.

Hortense Calisher

#2. Yet the stomach for war breeds an appetite for money.

Peter Ackroyd

#3. To belong to someone - I didn't know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that's all I've ever wanted. To really be somebody's, and to have them be mine.

Jenny Han

#4. Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

Wayne Gretzky

#5. But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

Mark A. Rayner

#6. Passion without purpose is like a shot without a target.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#7. I did exactly as Sampson said and I conjured up a creature with rabbit ears,
a wolf face, a snake body, frog feet, a pig tail, and spikes running from the top of its head to the end of its tail.
"Now," Sampson said. "This is the
kind of magic that you shouldn't do.

Jennifer Priester

#8. Pain leaves a mark, the degree depending on the person and the event.

Chevy Stevens

#9. 'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.

Melissa De Sousa

#10. It was a brave old world.

Mark A. Rayner

#11. People who have so much of their personality invested in the Internet can't really survive as whole individuals without it.

Mark A. Rayner

#12. We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man ... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.

Christopher Lasch

#13. Turning the other cheek is not always the answer. In a certain situation on a certain day for a certain person, it's correct. Sometimes a good roundhouse kick on a certain day in a certain situation for a certain person is correct.

Frederick Lenz

#14. We can only re-tell stories; we attempt, in doing so, to tell new stories. Is there a way out of this bind? I think the trick is to enter into it completely. Avoid purity. The idea of perfection sounds awfully boring.

Robert Kroetsch

#15. A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

Benjamin Spock