Merrie Quotes

#1. One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie.

George Herbert

#2. I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons.

Billy Collins

#3. Things were far from normal. They weren't even close.

Jessica Sorensen

#4. Ignorance does not make the wrong choice into the right one.

Merrie Haskell

#5. Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. Do you still believe that if you truly want something enough it can happen? I ask. I think of all the times I wanted to stop the world from spinning, all the times I wanted to go back and start over again. All the things I've wanted to undo or take back. Did I not want them enough?

Carrie Ryan

#7. Are you suggesting we eat cursed fruit? Vicious fruit? Attacking fruit?

Merrie Haskell

#8. before I knew it, I started writing in my head. It drowns out the whispers.

Merrie Destefano

#9. In the spring, Jeeves, a livelier iris gleams upon the burnished dove."
"So I have been informed, sir."
"Right ho! Then bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I'm going into the Park to do pastoral dances.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

Griffin Dunne

#11. The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

Merrie Spaeth

#12. And turnips - endless ruptured turnips.

Merrie Haskell

#13. Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

Omari Hardwick

#14. What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention.

Merrie Spaeth

#15. The magical force that had sundered everything in the castle had occasionally made some very odd choices in its destruction - Sand found a hammer that had been broken only at the wooden handle and not any of the metal parts, and another hammer whose handle was whole while the metal was broken.

Merrie Haskell

#16. An uncomfortable marriage can not bear the strain of the death of a beloved donkey.

Merrie Haskell

#17. I'm alive," he groaned. "But I'm not doing a very good job of it.

Merrie Haskell

#18. Some things don't need to be mended.
Some things are not meant to be mended. Some things are not for you to mend.

Merrie Haskell

#19. You're not mending anything, remember, Sand? The hedge." He paused and shook his head at himself. "And Perrotte's away for a few minutes, and you're talking to yourself again.

Merrie Haskell

#20. My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

Eli Wallach

#21. It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.

Tennessee Williams

#22. I asked him: Why didn't you just tell me? He said: 'If I tell you, you'll just forget at some critical point. If you figure it out for yourself, you'll always remember.

Merrie Haskell

#23. Who knows what courses their lives would have taken if I had done differently?

Merrie Haskell

#24. I didn't hear any of that," he said. "You didn't?" "Nope. Chivalry occasionally causes deafness.

Merrie Haskell

#25. We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great actors constantly do?

Merrie Spaeth

#26. The shrine I prayed at not to go to university," Sand said.
"I guess your prayer was answered," Perrotte said.
Sand strongly considered throwing something at her - but there was nothing to hand that wasn't sacred.

Merrie Haskell

#27. But winter was necessary. Why else would the world have it? The trees seemed to welcome the season, from the way they changed colors before they dropped their leaves and went to sleep. Winter was a part of a cycle, like day and night, life and death.

Merrie Haskell

#28. She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

Dave Eggers

#29. The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it's exhausting to get them out in the right order." He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she'd heard one. She raised an eyebrow.

Merrie Haskell

#30. I understand that you don't want to marry me," I said. "I mean, I don't know why, since I'm simply delightful to be around. But to each his own taste.

Merrie Haskell

#31. Why did being a princess always come down to taxes and cows?

Merrie Haskell

#32. Fate is for people who are too lazy to do anything

Merrie Haskell

#33. Forgiveness is not death. It is life.

Merrie Haskell

#34. Birds have a powerful sense of home.

Merrie Haskell

#35. You don't like the idea of another female marking me? Then leave your brand there, warn them off. Show them who I belong to.

Suzanne Wright

#36. Guest roles are how you get initiated into the industry. It's fun. Over the course of a few years you realise you've done many shows. You get a chance to prove yourself, and that's how you get jobs because of people who have worked with you in the past and trust you.

Sasha Roiz

#37. It is our business to go as we are impelled.

D.H. Lawrence

#38. I held in the sneeze, though, by thinking of the word cucumber. It always works.

Merrie Haskell

#39. Mens videt astra.
(The soul sees the stars.)

Merrie Haskell

#40. Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

Merrie Spaeth