Top 100 Marsh Quotes
#2. The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.
William Beebe
#3. All ponzi schemes are upheld by a centripetal force caused by those orbiting the circles of power, celebrity and wealth and trying to get in. When the ponzi scheme reaches its point of maximum growth, the force disperses and the ponzi scheme collapses.
Heather Marsh
#5. The first book, Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh was published in 1915.
Anonymous
#6. It is interesting to note that the words silent and listen contain all of the same letters, just rearranged.
Suzanne Marsh
#7. Zip! Back to the mansion. Zip! to Market Square. Zip! and there was the castle yet again. She was getting the hang of it. Zip! Here was Upper Folding - but how did you stop? Zip! "Oh, confound it!" Sophie cried, almost in Marsh Folding again.
Diana Wynne Jones
#8. This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!
Maxim Gorky
#9. Beyond the ephemeral and the dark stands "a sign from eternity, solemn and mighty, bathed in the radiance of the divine sun of grace and light - the cross. And there [God] hangs, his arms outstretched as if to embrace the entire world in love."42
Charles Marsh
#10. The will of God - nothing less, nothing more, nothing else.
F. E. Marsh
#11. A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.
George Mercer Dawson
#12. Eskimos are uncivilised because they don't have any shops.
Jodie Marsh
#13. Don't you sometimes get a little tired of being so constantly outraged? - Mr Marsh
Liesel Schwarz
#14. Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.
George Perkins Marsh
#15. Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
Cameron Crowe
#16. When I wear a really nice and classy dress out, the papers never print it.
Jodie Marsh
#17. Who controls the words controls your thoughts.
Heather Marsh
#18. I'm okay!" she called. "I broke my fall with a spell. Now I just have to figure out how to get marsh water out of my lady parts.
Amanda Carlson
#19. I looked out to see a forbidding place with granite walls and towering gates,
implacable barriers to be reckoned with, the words strung across the archway struck fear into
my confused mind:
MARSH LUNATIC ASYLUM.
This was my new home for now.
Carole Gill
#20. The idea that my sucker is moving through thought itself, through emotion and reason, that memories, dreams and reflections should consist of jelly, is simply too strange to understand.
Henry Marsh
#21. Here's what I think," says Jasmine between chattering teeth. "If these humans are stupid enough to go hiking in this - " she gestures to the thick mist swirling around us '-then they deserve to be led into a marsh and drowned.
Rachel Morgan
#22. Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#23. Faith sees the unseen things and makes them real.
F. E. Marsh
#24. The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.
Mike Marsh
#25. Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna , and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.
Roger Bacon
#26. Yellow is my favorite, but what is yellow? Handmaiden to white, it is a slight tarnish of pure light. Take away a bit of whites absolute luminosity, and what remains is yellow
sunlike, golden as a crown, buttercups in a field, marsh marigolds, a finch's wing, a plastic flute.
Richard Grossinger
#27. You killed my pappy," said the youth, "and my pappy's pappy. And his pappy's pappy. And my brothers Jethro, Hank, Hoss, Red, Peregrine, Marsh, Junior, Dizzy, Luke, Peregrine, George and all the others. I'm callin' you out, lawman.
Jasper Fforde
#28. You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.
Ngaio Marsh
#29. We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
Henry David Thoreau
#30. Aunt Bette." I started squirming toward her voice. "Are you okay?" "No, I'm not okay. We've been kidnapped and Marsh is drinking martinis and probably flirting with the waitress!" she snapped, and it sounded like she too was moving but not in my direction.
Kristen Ashley
#32. She managed to thank God for having been born before she lost herself in the inconceivable pleasure of that unbearable pain, splashing in the steaming marsh of the hammock which absorbed the explosion of blood like a blotter
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#33. The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.
James Marsh
#34. How do you tell the difference between carelessness and passion?" Claire asked as they paced back along the edge of the marsh. "Is there one? I meane, really, is there any way to love a person without the hell beat out of you for it?
Tiffany Baker
#35. I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies,
In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies.
Sidney Lanier
#36. I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking off desperately toward the horizon as if in mute search for a sign of rescue.
John Banville
#37. Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.
Jan Marsh
#38. Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.
Ngaio Marsh
#39. All of society's problems which could be solved by money, were caused by money.
Heather Marsh
#40. What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.
Carolyn See
#41. Till gradually he became desperate, lost his understanding, was plunged in a revolt that knew no bounds. Inarticulate, he moved with her at the Marsh in violent, gloomy, wordless passion, almost in hatred of her.
D.H. Lawrence
#42. There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a very frank meeting we had with the president.
Bobby Jindal
#43. The Marsh King raised himself up and ushered me out the door with the air of a host who has just realized he is one guest away from a comfortable nap.
Catherynne M Valente
#44. Take from thy neighbour that which is not yours and thou shalt reap the consequences for all eternity
Kevin Marsh
#45. And with the melody came the unmistakable sound of water slapping against the rocks far below us, slowly eroding the foundation of Port Coire and everything I loved.
Sarah Glenn Marsh
#47. If you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.
Ngaio Marsh
#48. Angor animi - the sense of being in the act of dying, differing from the fear of death or the desire for death.
Henry Marsh
#49. None of the questions was what I expected. Most of them were esoteric thought experiments, 'How would you turn Pride and Prejudice into a video game?' and 'If you added a button to Pac-Man, what would you want it to do?' Conundrums like 'How come when Mario jumps he can change direction in midair?
Austin Grossman
#50. Life without hope is hopelessly difficult but at the end hope can so easily make fools of us all.
Henry Marsh
#52. I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror or a thriller or whatever because it is about a ghost, whereas a horror film can be about aliens or things that rise out of the marsh that have no human shape.
Susan Hill
#53. We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.
Ngaio Marsh
#54. Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.
James Marsh
#55. Marsh had travelled on foot to the source of the Nile and once stood down a charging rhinoceros by intrepidly opening a pink umbrella in its face.
Wade Davis
#56. It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.
Katherine Marsh
#57. But I then thought of how the value of my work as a doctor is measured solely in the value of other people's lives, and that included the people in front of me in the check-out queue.
Henry Marsh
#58. Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
John Updike
#59. Another teen friendship, another tiny mysterious universe.
Austin Grossman
#60. But Mr. Bernstein, didn't you tell Mr. Marsh about six months earlier that, in order to qualify for a loan modification, he had to be delinquent in his loan payments?" "That's for a modification, not a refinance, and that
Kenneth Eade
#61. It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.
Ngaio Marsh
#62. her book. Ngaio Marsh. Myrna was re-reading the classics.
Louise Penny
#63. Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don't want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them.
Heather Marsh
#64. the first retail bar code scanner was used in 1974 to scan a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum in a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. But
John Kounios
#65. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#66. The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.
Mary MacLane
#67. I raise my face to his, ready for the crush of his lips against mine, wanting to share more than these nervous breaths.
Sarah Glenn Marsh
#68. All pomp and show." Anjali's glare at the house would've exploded bricks if she'd had superhuman powers. "A fat cow needs a big barn.
Nicola Marsh
#69. No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells ...
Ngaio Marsh
#70. The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh.
Lord Dunsany
#71. When push comes to shove we can afford to lose an arm or a leg, but I am operating on peoples thoughts and feelings... and if something goes wrong I can destroy that persons character... forever.
Henry Marsh
#72. We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.
Heather Marsh
#73. It's raining outside. How did you get here? And how did you get to be twenty-eight?
Austin Grossman
#74. I was told that there was nothing for me but to come here. But, as with life itself, it may not be our choice to come, but it is our choice to leave.
Katherine Marsh
#75. Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#76. I rose from marsh mud
algae, equisetum, willows,
sweet green, noisy
birds and frogs.
Lorine Niedecker
#77. Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on an inconceivable scale, notwithstanding the ideas of Hawking radiation.
James Marsh
#78. Women at the top are the ones chosen to be there by men and not eliminated by women, a dual filter that excludes most witches: those with brilliance and originality and those capable of disturbing the status quo.
Heather Marsh
#79. First of all, and before any creature was, God made heaven and earth out of nothing.
E.C. Marsh
#80. The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#81. I think I know a place we can go where they know about unnatural things.
Katherine Marsh
#82. There is no mile as long the final one that leads back home.
Katherine Marsh
#83. To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection.
Katherine Marsh
#84. But never in all her human days had her blood bubbled with such a golden exultation and such blissful freedom as now when she ran, a werewolf, across the marsh.
Aino Kallas
#85. One of the graces of this world is that there is always some opportunity to show through our actions-be they ever so small or humble-who we are and what we truly believe.
Katherine Marsh
#86. his presence lifted her, turning the world from drab to neon. A
Katie Marsh
#87. The chip comes from silicon foundries who have been running their plants for the past fifty years, understand mass manufacture, and are the area that is most likely to understand the volume increase problem.
Mike Marsh
#88. I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile.
Betsy King
#89. What's a treaty? It's a piece of paper. An agreement means nothing in itself. It's the power to force others to comply with that agreement - that's all that counts. That's the sham of this whole thing."
- General Marsh
S.J. Kincaid
#90. Self-governance does not mean no one is responsible. It means everyone is.
Heather Marsh
#91. Night smelt the way Havoc's songs sounded. It smelt of steel and rushlights and the marsh welcoming a misstep and anger souring like old blood.
Frances Hardinge
#92. Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.
Heather Marsh
#93. I said you could ask, Mr. Marsh. I didn't say that I would answer. -Lexie Darnell
Nicholas Sparks
#94. Buried his face in Lily's throat, drinking in her small
Anne Marsh
#95. If I had something valuable, I'd keep it in my pocket where I could keep an eye on it," Michael said.
"Sure," said Wendy. "With all the holes you have in your pockets, that would be a real safe place.
Carole Marsh
#96. You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.
Katherine Marsh
#97. Most men - not just the men in Brentwood - are scared of powerful women with brains. There's something in a man that makes him want to have power over a woman - whether it's in the bedroom or because they earn more money. It boosts their egos.
Jodie Marsh
#98. The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.
Doris Lessing
#99. Marsh'k cut the circuit on the rest of the helmsman's whining and rose to his feet, stretching to his full height of just under six standard Terran feet.
Christina Engela
#100. One should have the courage of one's loneliness.
Ngaio Marsh
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