Mirthless Crossword Quotes

#1. I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

Maya Angelou

#2. Become nothing...
hurry .... dissolve ...
end the fire ...
Drown in the ocean of love...
Disintegrate...
Become like water
No even lighter
Ethereal Vapour
Bellow across the hearts
Embalm spirits
Create Bliss.

Gabriel Iqbal

#3. I love that woman. The only thing I want is for her to be happy. I'll do whatever it takes to see that happen. Do you get that?

Kelley Armstrong

#4. Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

John Lasseter

#5. [Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

Michael Pollan

#6. In any true life you must go and be exposed outside the small circle that encompasses two or three heads in the same history of love.

Saul Bellow

#7. Whereas maximizers might do better objectively than satisficers, they tend to do worse subjectively.

Barry Schwartz

#8. Some murders are well worth their prison term.

Morrissey

#9. Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak; remember, Lord, how short my time is; remember that I am but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. My days are as grass, as a flower of the field; for the wind goeth over me, and I am gone, and my place shall know me no more.

Lancelot Andrewes

#10. I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

Andy Rooney

#11. Dan Rose's Sex God Method.

Anonymous

#12. Clarke's First Law - Corollary: When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.

Isaac Asimov

#13. Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.

Randeep Hooda

#14. In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

Otl Aicher

#15. I know by a full assurance that I am justified by faith which is in Christ Jesus, and treated as if I had been perfectly just, and made an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ; and yet by nature I must take my place among the most sinful.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon