Stuart Mackenzie Quotes

#1. I spent most of my adult life looking for romantic love.

Daphne Zuniga

#2. It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.

Tim Winton

#3. Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.

Mary E. Pearson

#4. We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

Maya Angelou

#5. You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

Robert Breault

#6. Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.

John Stuart Mackenzie

#7. Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

Soledad O'Brien

#8. We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

Tony Randall

#9. The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finally maintained...all existing things are, in an intelligible sense, imaginary.

John Stuart Mackenzie

#10. I don't know if you're ever prepared for public scrutiny. I don't know if you can even mentally prepare yourself for it. But it is part of the job. It's maybe not the most pleasant part but I get to experience so many other things that I shouldn't be able to experience. So, that's the trade-off.

Megan Fox

#11. I love my wife, I love my kids.

Ted McGinley

#12. Mal snickered.
"What's so funny?"
"I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.

Leigh Bardugo

#13. When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

C.S. Lewis

#14. When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

Ivan Pavlov

#15. Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.

Dana Hussein

#16. Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

Jasper Fforde

#17. To be well married you have to a penchant for the intricacies of intimacy and larval change..If the personality is a spider's web, you will want to know every thread ... Pleasures no longer come to you, but there are pickings to be had if you can learn to scavenge for them" ("The Body")

Hanif Kureishi