Mortimer Collins Quotes

#1. If all the months and all their days could be like June weather in New York, there would be paradise on earth. Often, in early June, momentous decisions are made, power waxes strong, quick wars are fought, and love affairs are begun and ended.

Mark Helprin

#2. My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

A.K. Kuykendall

#3. Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.

Mortimer Collins

#4. There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist - Then he was a Man and a Positivist.

Mortimer Collins

#5. When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

Eric Cantona

#6. My shadow is only half of what it should be."
"Everyone has their shortcomings.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#8. When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

Brian Blessed

#9. Can you also write down that under no circumstances can either of us tell anyone the truth?" I ask him. "The first rule of Fight Club," Peter says knowingly. "I've never seen that movie." "Of course you haven't," he says, and I make a face at him. Also: mental note, watch Fight Club.

Jenny Han

#10. Lovers have a language that can be lost
how to speak, how to touch, when to try.

Parke Godwin

#11. Having thought it through at your leisure, you'll be able to say no with greater confidence.

Auliq Ice

#12. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

Mortimer Collins

#14. I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

Rob Corddry

#15. There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess

Mortimer Collins

#16. I worked thirteen years, got me nowhere. I feel like I tried it their way, and to hell with them. Now I'm going to try it my way.

Lee Child

#17. Tolkien was, I believe, writing about his experience in the First and Second World Wars, where he would have spent a lot of time without any female contact. He was part of the fellowship of men who went to war, and I think, really, that's what he's writing about.

Richard C. Armitage

#18. Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

Mortimer Collins

#19. Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.

Sachin Bansal

#20. The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.

Mortimer Collins

#21. I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

Twyla Tharp

#22. Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Mortimer Collins