Martens Hout Quotes

#1. It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.

Michael Chabon

#2. When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

Charles Horton Cooley

#3. As I leafed through the book in front of me and watched the dust swirl in the air, I wondered if maybe there was some evil dormant virus in the pages that would infect me, like the mummy dust that used to kill archaeologists. Death by research. That was not a glorious end.

Rachel Caine

#4. You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Erica Jong

#5. I am going to the bad place, as is my wont.

David Rakoff

#6. I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.

Richard Virenque

#7. You should hear mama on the chapter of governesses: Mary and I have had, I should think, a dozen at least in our day; half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi - were they not, mama? Blanche Ingram

Charlotte Bronte

#8. The goal is not to be the richest man in the cemetery.

Steve Jobs

#9. Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#10. I need the shade of blue that rips your heart out. You don't see that type of blue around here.

Cath Crowley