Messman Course Quotes

#1. These trifles will lead to serious mischief.
[Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent
In mala.]

Horace

#2. Marietta is good for you, Gabriel. I quite like her. Don't be a fool and let her go."
"I can do nothing but let her go, John. Sometimes love can only be given by setting someone free.

Anne Mallory

#3. The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.

Jill Abramson

#4. I'll tell you this up front: The other dead man, the murder victim, was my brother. There's nothing left of him. There's only me, left to speak in his place, sitting in this bar, waiting for condolences no one's ever going to offer.

Kamel Daoud

#5. For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue - that I had to do the job myself.

Anais Nin

#6. I do think vulnerability is a virtue.

Raul Castillo

#7. Sure it is, but global warming isn't the death of the Earth. It's the death of humanity. It's more like the Earth's way of evicting mortals because they've been lousy tenants. Just because the Earth isn't habitable doesn't means it's dead. Just not in the mood for guests and freeloaders.

Jon Skovron

#8. Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life.

Lev Grossman