Markel Quotes

#1. Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.

Lee Bennett Hopkins

#2. We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

Will Durant

#3. How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected.

Howard Markel

#4. A wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.

E. E. Cummings

#5. I've had lots of parts in movies that I've never seen. I mean no disrespect to them. It was really fun to go act, but I'm not calling my friends and saying, 'I couldn't be more proud of this picture. You should go see it.'

Timothy Olyphant

#6. What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion

Lester Markel

#7. Because I don't want to be with anyone except you. I didn't want her, I only want you. I only want you,

Mia Sheridan

#8. [I]n America,
wrongs can be righted,
warriors can wear skirts and blouses,
and the bravest hearts
may beat in girls
only five feet tall.

Michelle Markel

#9. A cup in her hand that was either strong tea or weak coffee. She nodded toward his desktop monitor. On it, three

James S.A. Corey

#10. The blood of the guitar was Chuck Berry red.

Meat Loaf

#11. What do you think? Overkill?"
"I don't believe there is any such thing.
But in this case, 'yes, overkill.

Howard Tayler

#12. I draw him closer by his tie and whisper into his ear, Cricket Bell, I have been in love with you for my entire life.

Stephanie Perkins

#13. Sadly, the immortal Jackie Milburn died recently

Cliff Morgan

#14. I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.

Patricia Highsmith

#15. People will do as they are told by someone who outranks them, but they will only follow someone they believe in.

Simon Sinek

#16. That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.

John Banville

#17. I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

David Nicholls

#18. Any game plan? (Xypher)
Don't die. (Sin)
I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me. (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. Chuckled, referring to the time Markel had used up sixty percent of the system's resources to simulate a series of space battles in real time for one of his war games. Markel flushed.

Anne McCaffrey

#20. Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know.

Howard Markel

#21. ranchers in the whole county already had

Mike Markel