Mercuric Quotes

#1. The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company of the great, mercuric, encyclopedic minds: Empson, Kenneth Burke, Northrop Frye.

Paul Fry

#2. I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.

Stephen Daldry

#3. Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness.

David Levithan

#4. I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.

Seth Godin

#5. I was the last of the four Dresden dolls. Only me... and I didn't want to be here.

V.C. Andrews

#6. I was never afraid of dead folk. You know that? They never hurt you. So many things in this town can hurt you, but the dead don't hurt hurt you. Living people hurt you. They hurt you so bad.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Can you really have thought that love and joy would always be at the mercy of frowns and sighs?

C.S. Lewis

#8. I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.

Rachael Ray

#9. I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

Fay Vincent

#10. He dropped the tavern apron in a heap on the floor and pulled the freshly laundered one up and over his head, tied it with slightly tremoring fingers. The vast whiteness felt like absolution.

Devon Trevarrow Flaherty

#11. I get really frustrated if people don't smile.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#12. Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that, it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that.

Leonard Little