Mortaiser Quotes

#1. Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Annie Dillard

#2. My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Lee Iacocca

#3. To love someone is to make them transparent.

Victor Hugo

#4. Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?

Katharine Hepburn

#5. I Came away from the U.S. Memory Championship eager to find out how Ed and Lukas did it. Were these just extraordinary individuals, pridigies from the long tail of humanity's bell curve, or was there something we could all learn from their talents?

Joshua Foer

#6. Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.

Marion Ross

#7. When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Margaret Sackville

#8. Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

Henry John Heinz

#9. She looked at him for a long moment. There really is more substance to you than you let on, isn't there?£

Jen Turano

#10. The seasons of my heart change like the seasons of the fields. There are seasons of wonder and hope, seasons of suffering and love, seasons of healing. There are seasons of dying and rising, seasons of faith.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#11. Looking out the rain-fogged window at the gray November day, Mary felt almost grateful for the snug warmth of her well-heated chamber. Escape, the captive queen decided with a yawn, would have to wait until spring.

Margaret George

#12. Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

Seneca The Younger

#13. I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

Mariel Hemingway