Mary Wroth Quotes

#1. There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#3. IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.

Emily Dickinson

#4. She is an animal. Servile as a dog. And yet if he is careful to make no demands, to leave the air between them open, another version of the windup girl emerges. As precious and rare as a living bo tree. Her soul, emerging from within the strangling strands of her engineered DNA.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#5. Set impossible challenges. Then catch up with them.

Richard Branson

#6. Uh, that restaurant should be the safest place on earth.

Scott Cawthon

#7. If what you're doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.

Celestine Chua

#8. What still doth waste, and wasting as this light,
Are my sad days unto eternal night.

Mary Wroth

#9. We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.

Frank Herbert

#10. What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?

Victor Hugo

#11. You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.

Stephen Rea

#12. I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

Johann Lamont

#13. The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.

Douglas Coupland

#14. As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so of the cavern and the mound; the Chinese, of the tent; the Gothic, of overarching trees; the Greek, of a cabin.

Nathaniel Hawthorne