Misericorde Quotes

#1. MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.

Judi Dench

#3. When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes!

Oprah Winfrey

#4. The quality of the pass leads directly to the quality of the shot

Pete Carril

#5. The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues ...

Freya Stark

#6. If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.

Conn Smythe

#7. The bladder-pipe, a local Highlands speciality, is to music what warthogs are to mathematics. Largely unconnected.

Mark Lawrence

#8. I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

Paulo Coelho

#9. He who wants the world must first escape from it.

Daniel Handler