Murmorations Quotes

#1. Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious.

Oscar Wilde

#2. It was a silly time to try to make a living out of words, but it was a silly time in general.

Steven Kotler

#3. I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me.

Duff Goldman

#4. Love is the beauty of the being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.

J.C. McKeown

#6. Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

Michael Novak

#7. If death can cry, maybe we all have a chance for redemption.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#8. I don't know. When I was born there was a nurse taking care of me."
"What's the matter? Couldn't the nurse take care of herself?" "Sure she could. I just found that out too late.

Groucho Marx

#9. No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Lynn Johnston

#10. The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

William Hazlitt

#11. Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

Jane Austen

#12. As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon.

Aimee Bender