Merican Quotes

#1. I fell asleep to the faint sounds of the nonsense doggerel Merican Pie.

Mark Lawrence

#2. After she'd called for the car, they waited outside while it drove itself over.

William Gibson

#3. That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.

Neil Gaiman

#4. Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

Irving Thalberg

#5. Writers are Igniters!

Cammy Walters

#6. Have you ever actually listened to golfers talking to each other? "Looked good starting out ... " "Better direction than last time ... " "Who's away? ... " It sounds like visitors' day at a home for the criminally insane.

Peter Andrews

#7. The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#8. A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire.
Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,
but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

Rumi

#10. Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

Annie Leibovitz

#11. He'd told her they would fight their way out. Knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. She would fight for him, but she could not heal him. She would not waste her life trying.

Leigh Bardugo

#12. I'm not really good at keeping my own secrets. I can keep other people's secrets pretty well. Unless they're really good and people deserve to hear them. And I'll disseminate the information accordingly.

John Mayer

#13. Really, nobody was there?" I asked.
"Well, nobody important," he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.

Daniel Amory

#14. Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

Gary Ross