Melvin Laird Quotes

#1. Gravitation cant be held responsible for people falling in love.

Karsten Andersen

#2. Bonkers is female . . . Did she know that?

Stjepan Sejic

#3. I have said before that metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor.

Milan Kundera

#4. We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

Jean Baudrillard

#5. Trees are living beings. And they have their own personalities... There are the young, eager saplings, all striving with each other... If you put your cheek against one of those, you almost sense the sap rising and the energy.

Jane Goodall

#6. A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

Melvin Laird

#7. Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. In this world it is becoming more and more unpopular to be a Christian. Soon it may become dangerous.

Melvin Laird

#9. She can tell you the height of the attacker from the trigonometry of the blood spatter, while I'm fuzzy on what trigonometry is.

Ilona Andrews

#10. As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th person just started, so we are holding a conference, appropriately titled the TENTH Eiffel USER conference, to celebrate.

Bertrand Meyer

#11. Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

Aimee Bender

#12. There is something terrible in the moments after waking up, when the subconscious
knows that something terrible has happened but before all the memories flash back in
their entirety

Nicholas Sparks

#13. The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.

Hanya Yanagihara

#14. Jesus taught that we'll never be satisfied with anything we own, only with Who owns us.

Ken Hutcherson

#15. Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?

Eva Marie Saint

#16. What are blue-stockings?' asked Tommy.
Naturally you don't know,' replied the other. 'If you did, you would sympathize more with Bluebeard. They were ladies who were always reading books. They even read them aloud.

G.K. Chesterton