Marmont Hill Quotes

#1. All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

Isaac Newton

#2. I don't need new people."
"That just shows how much you need new people. ...

Rainbow Rowell

#3. The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

Ernst Mach

#4. While Sex without love is shallow, it's so profoundly uncomplicated

Josh Stern

#5. Such are the lives of those who haven't the courage to risk: solutions are generously provided by God, but people always seek complicated explanations, and end up doing nothing.

Paulo Coelho

#6. Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.

Vincent Piazza

#7. I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our rice in India, with either vegetables or meat or whatever.) Before you know it, every common use of plants will be patented by a Western corporation.

Vandana Shiva

#8. We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.

Saul Bellow

#9. I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know
or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

H.P. Lovecraft

#10. When your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you accept Pimple as a nickname and are grateful that it wasn't anything worse.

Terry Pratchett

#11. Miracles had to be paid for; only calamity was free.

Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

#12. My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

Maira Kalman

#13. He could do nothing but twist his moustache, drink, and chatter the most inept nonsense that can possibly be imagined.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.

Neal A. Maxwell

#15. We had no idea that this show [Daredevil] would be as popular as it was, but with the benefit of hindsight, one thing I can say is that I think that was a really, really smart move.

Charlie Cox