Morrible Quotes

#1. Well," said Madame Morrible in a carrying tone, "one expects poetry, if it is Poetry, to offend. It is the Right of Art.

Gregory Maguire

#2. [after discussion about what evil is, a question asked to Elphaba on why she killed Madame Morrible]
"Why did you do it?" asked the hostess with spirit.
The Witch shrugged. "For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

Gregory Maguire

#3. Does that mean", I said in some bewilderment, "that we must eat again of the tree of knowledge in order to return to the state of innocence?"
"Of course", he said, "but that's the final chapter in the history of the world.

Heinrich Von Kleist

#4. God is the captain of our lives, sometimes He diverts our plans and our ideas, let Him do so because he will never let us do something daft.

Euginia Herlihy

#5. The dirt," he says, his voice strangely peaceful. "What about it?" she asks. "It's dirty.

Julianna Baggott

#6. It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

Thomas Sowell

#7. The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#8. Evolution is, as an engineer, an opportunist, not a perfectionist.

Stanislaw Lem

#9. Here's a hot tip: Most girls don't like being stalked.

Cassandra Clare

#10. Without curiosity, all doors remain closed!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. I truly feel absolutely at home on the stage. It's very comfortable to me. It's very much my workplace, very much my workplace. I feel that an audience and I are happy with one another. I'm grateful for that.

Ruth Cracknell

#12. Grant pressed his back against the outside wall of the turquoise and white two-story home he and a team of Miami PD officers were about to storm. On the surface the place fit in perfectly into the upper middle class neighborhood. On the inside, however, it was a fully functioning cocaine lab.

Katie Reus

#13. If people have ghosts, then why shouldn't other things have them? What makes us so special that only we can have ghosts?

Alexander McCall Smith

#14. In vain we search the heavens high above, The God of love is kneeling at our feet. Though we betray him, though it is the night, He meets us here and loves us into light.

Malcolm Guite

#15. There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.

Vironika Tugaleva

#16. Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

George Gaylord Simpson

#17. The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing.
[Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862]

Rudolf Clausius