Micallef Watch Quotes

#1. Misery loves company, as someone unbearably trite said once.

George R R Martin

#2. A box of chocolates is the wrapped equivalent of a shrug. You may as well not bother.

Matthew Crow

#3. The eye's perception of texture is pale compared to the lips', and I didn't know what velvety was until I knew it with my lips. Oh, kissing. Oh, violin boy.

Laini Taylor

#4. The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

#5. Safe. Right beside mine, right where it belongs. You're not lost, little bird, and you won't be.

Shelly Crane

#6. Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

#7. It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.

Tyler Knott Gregson

#8. The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

George Orwell

#9. We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us.

Ramona Koval

#10. Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

Seth MacFarlane

#11. I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.

Andy Warhol

#12. It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Pythagoras

#13. The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.

Fritz Weaver

#14. Relatively, there are many scientists who believe in God. And in Oxford, where I am the Professor, there are more professors like me, who believe in God, than you think. There are not dozens of them, but they are there, and in Cambridge too, and elsewhere. We are not in a tiny minority.

John Lennox

#15. The startling thing about her simplifying instinct was that the more she did away with fashion in search for comfort and the more she passed over conventions as she obeyed spontaneity, the more disturbing her incredible beauty became and the more provocative she become to men.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez