Top 15 Merrihew Quotes
#1. That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.
Saadi
#2. I was thinking about how people were upset about the information that came out from Snowden about the NSA - many people were upset, including myself. But I was kind of surprised by how little we did about it - how little fighting we did.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#3. You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.
Don Roff
#5. Akela, the grim old wolf who had never asked for mercy in his life, gave one piteous look at Mowgli as the boy stood all naked, his long black hair tossing over his shoulders in the light of the blazing branch that made the shadows jump and quiver.
Rudyard Kipling
#6. Oh, man. I'm not interested to driving the Lamborghini. I'm more interested in making Lamborghini. That's what creativity means to me.
Seong Pill Kon
#7. We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.
Daisaku Ikeda
#8. You could forget who you were if you forgot where you came from, and sometimes the innkeeper's daughter from Emond's Field seemed a stranger to her.
Robert Jordan
#9. All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.
Tony Shalhoub
#10. If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.
Jim Butcher
#12. The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.
John Stuart Mill
#13. Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.
R.D. Laing
#14. Colder than the nipple on a witch's tit! Colder than a bucket of penguin shit! Colder than the hairs of a polar bear's ass! Colder than the frost on a champagne glass!
Thomas Pynchon
#15. I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had something to brag about.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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