Mountain Wreath Quotes

#1. Humor is my default mode.

John Updike

#2. There were several completely mysterious electrical devices connected with the washstand, and the water valve did not cut off when you released the faucet but kept pouring out until shut off - a sign, Shevek thought, either of great faith in human nature, or of great quantities of hot water.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.

Cate Blanchett

#4. I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that's a thing that's going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar.

Martha Wainwright

#5. There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.

David Hyde Pierce

#6. I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.

Alfred Rosenberg

#7. Benny Imura sat in the dark and spoke with monsters.
It was like that every day.
It had become the pattern of his life. Shadows and blood. And monsters.
Everywhere.
Monsters.

Jonathan Maberry

#8. You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

Thomas McGuane

#9. To maintain a fault known is a double fault.

John Jewel

#10. Carpe diem. Seize the day.

John Keats

#11. Jason had attended debutante balls. Knew the drill. My crew would have to conduct research on YouTube. Jason was popular on the cotillion scene. My guys weren't even on the radar. Asking Jason would get Whitney off my back. Inviting only Morris Island boys might plummet her into a depression.

Kathy Reichs

#12. The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.

Howard G. Hendricks

#13. It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

Majandra Delfino

#14. The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.

Thomas Sowell