Mirrorshades Lyrics Quotes

#1. The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as ... the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

Woody Allen

#3. I slipped it into your papers to see if you would notice. The Zen master Ikkyu was once asked to write a distillation of the highest wisdom. He wrote only one word: Attention.

Jenny Offill

#4. Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.

John Updike

#5. Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

Aristotle.

#6. My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

Aselin Debison

#7. When giving an apology, any performance lower than an A really doesn't cut it.

Randy Pausch

#8. The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

Kenneth Branagh

#9. You, and rule!" she said. "You don't rule, don't flatter yourself. You have only got more than your share of the money, and make people work for you for two pounds a week, or threaten them with starvation.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. How was it that Adrian Ivashkov, who never seemed to take anything seriously was the only one among these "responsible" people who paid attention to such small details? How was he the only one to really understand the magnitude of what I was feeling?

Richelle Mead

#11. He didn't let me do anything, even bought me shirts that said, "If you didn't put it in there, then don't touch it." My mom still laughed about that one. She said that it was endearing the way he protected me,

M. Robinson