Maud Martha Quotes

#1. What she wanted was to donate to the world a good Maud Martha. That was the offering, the bit of art, that could not come from any other. She would polish and hone that.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#2. Keep her downstairs a minute!' I breathed desperately. I don't know why; you don't want your agonies of soul witnessed by a woman. ("Nightmare")

Cornell Woolrich

#3. If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

Steven Wright

#4. When we reached the lobby outside the office, moving like a pair of power walkers
no running in the halls of Green Pastures because there was too much chance of knocking over one of the many ethereal, artistic types wandering around in hip glasses with the wrong prescription ... (39)

Susan Juby

#5. Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a man twenty miles away.' 'Life is a mystery,' said Powdermill, with a gold-toothed grin. 'It is that, right enough,' agreed Huntsekker.

David Gemmell

#6. I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

Sarah Silverman

#7. Now he knew that it was only love when you knew there could be no end to it. When it was as inevitable as gravity. Falling in love, a helpless descent in which the only way to avoid being hurt was to keep going. Keep falling.

Lisa Kleypas

#8. The light a sun. When I was a child, I thought that sleep came with darkness. When I grew older, I took long naps in the glare of the afternoon sunlight. The darkness was my enemy. Daylight was a triumph.

Abigail George

#9. Anger isn't the opposite of love. Hate is, and the final form of hate is indifference.[17]

Scott Sauls

#10. I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.

William Friedkin

#11. An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

Tycho Brahe

#12. If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You'll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.

John C. Maxwell

#13. I guess a little bit hero is enough. A little bit hero is all anyone really needs to be.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#14. Life ,for eternal us,is now

E. E. Cummings

#15. I'm a big believer in hard work, grinding it out, and not stopping until it's done,

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#16. Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

Lord Kelvin