Mera Quotes

#1. Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the 'China thing.'

Arne Glimcher

#2. What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill.

Rampo Edogawa

#3. To see something as either black or white is easy. To see the entirety in something that has blending colors takes time. To see something that's not there, takes one who is a visionary.

Wes Adamson

#4. I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.

Denis Leary

#5. Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?

Justin Hayward

#6. So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.

Shania Twain

#7. Self-denial is the best riches.

Seneca The Younger

#8. I could not bring myself to hang up the phone or even so much as move it from my ear. The chance that I could hear his voice once again was too great a prospect.

Jasmine Dubroff

#9. Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?

Ramez Naam

#10. What is a Miracle? It is something that was once thought Impossible but became Possible with FAITH.

R.v.m.

#11. The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#12. The Spirit of the Lord will come upon you in power, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person. (1 Sam. 10:6)

Beth Moore

#13. As if Art is the What, not the How!

David Mitchell

#14. From outside came a sudden and loud music of birds celebrating their existence.

Stephen King

#15. We were not making love, we did not even kiss, but the inexplicable intimacy we shared left us wordlessly and hopelessly locked into each other's gaze.

Jasmine Dubroff

#16. When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps.

Ice Cube