Mike Mcdermott Quotes

#1. You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once.

Mike McDermott

#2. History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

Voltaire

#3. I'd thought to protect Nate from monsters, but I forgot they came in human form, too.

Karen Lynch

#4. Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#5. It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money,

Mike McDermott

#6. Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that GOD IS DEAD!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. I'm in a mood to knock someone down, and you'll do very well."
"Don't tell me," Longmore said. "The dressmaker doesn't want you, either. By gad, this isn't your day, is it? Not your week, rather.

Loretta Chase

#8. For I am no orator. What would I have said if they had let me go on? That it is worse to beat a man's feet to pulp than to kill him in combat? That it brings shame on everyone when a girl is permitted to flog a man? That spectacles of cruelty corrupt the hearts of the innocent?

J.M. Coetzee

#9. Scoffin' a load of our grub an' not tellin' a story? I say, what a bally swizz!

Brian Jacques

#10. Those things that he held most deeply were most profoundly betrayed when he spoke of them to his classes; what was most alive withered in his words; and what moved him most became cold in its utterance.

John Edward Williams

#11. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

Mike McDermott