Shortchange Merriam Quotes

#1. A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.

Alan Bradley

#2. Cancer changes your life," a patient wrote after her mastectomy. "It alters your habits. ... Everything becomes magnified.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#3. She turned to him, shook her head. Her black hair tossed, and the beams of the late-afternoon sunlight played upon it, sending brief ripples of red and green and blue through it the same way that light, shimmering on the black surface of oil, creates short-lived, wriggling rainbows.

Dean Koontz

#4. Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

H. P. Blavatsky

#5. There are some great shows that come and go really fast, either because the network doesn't give them a chance or they just don't grab on to the psyche of the country quickly enough.

Lisa Edelstein

#6. A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.

Che Guevara

#7. Couldn't you hypnotize her or something?"
"It doesn't work like that."
"I thought vampires were all sex gods with the ladies."
Cade looked at him. "What gave you that idea?"
"Uh ... late-night TV, mostly ... "
"Humans are our food. Do you want to have sex with a cow?

Christopher Farnsworth

#8. We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something.

Marta