Anthony Merrill Quotes

What's in a color?
Why, love of course! ~ Anthony T. Hincks

Rainwater purls from cloud to roof to eave. ~ Anthony Doerr

Werner, that you're from, nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you. Think you'll do something great. ~ Anthony Doerr

I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out. ~ Anthony Doerr

Seek and listen for that silent sound of surety, in the stillness of peace succumbs your confidence. ~ Anthony Liccione

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation. ~ Anthony Braxton

You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family. ~ Anthony Marra

The dinner bell rings, and everyone trots off, Frederick coming in last with his taffy-colored hair and wounded eyes, bootlaces trailing. Werner washes Frederick's mess tin for him; he shares homework answers, shoe polish, sweets from Dr. Hauptmann; they run next to each other during field exercises. A brass pin weighs lightly on each of their lapels; one hundred and fourteen hobnailed boots spark against pebbles on the trail. The castle with its towers and battlements looms below them like some misty vision of foregone glory. Werner's blood gallops through his ventricles, his thoughts on Hauptmann's transceiver, on solder, fuses, batteries, antennas; his boot and Frederick's touch the ground at the exact same moment. ~ Anthony Doerr

Every human being has the right to be rich in mind, body and spirit. They need to live a life that is comforting, productive and continuous. They do not need to compete to reach this level of success but to take it in their strides and to relish the opportunity to pluck from The Universe its opulence. ~ Anthony Pan

Each story Werner hears contains its own flaws and contradictions, as though the truth is a machine whose gears are not meshing. ~ Anthony Doerr

Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that. ~ Carmelo Anthony

But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop? ~ Anthony Burgess

She sat, rediscovering the fullness of her first tongue in one long submersion. Again and again she would pause on a word Melio uttered. She would roll it around in her mind, feeling the contours of it. At times her mouth gaped open, her lips moving as if she were drinking in his words instead of breathing. ~ David Anthony Durham

Do not feed your motives, just feed the bears. ~ Anthony Liccione

Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that. ~ Anthony Mackie

What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through. ~ Miles Anthony Smith

The mind is like a parachute, it works best when it is open. ~ Robert Anthony

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough. ~ Anthony Hopkins

I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that. ~ Anthony Bourdain

I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms. ~ James Anthony Froude

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world. ~ James Anthony Froude

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK? ~ Anthony Michael Hall

Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach. ~ Anthony De Mello

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art. ~ Anthony Marais

Dust floats through the feeble beam of the flashlight: ten thousand particles, turning softly, twinkling. ~ Anthony Doerr

You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that. ~ Anthony Head

By the fifth 'I'm sorry' for the same cause, it's better to just say, I meant to do it. ~ Anthony Liccione

Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself. ~ Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury

On time is 10 minutes late. ~ Anthony Hitt

Here is a quick and generally reliable rule to follow. If people have always said it, it is probably true; it is the distilled wisdom of the ages. If people have not always said it, but everybody is saying it now, it is probably a lie; it is the concentrated madness of the moment. People ~ Anthony M. Esolen

Good food and good eating are about risk. ~ Anthony Bourdain

Violet sniffed and shot him a haughty look. "I should not be so quick to mock me, my son. I merely point out the truth. You should be down on your hands and knees thanking your maker every day that you don't have to marry an heiress. Most men don't have the luxury of free will when it comes to marriage, you know."
Anthony just smiled. "I should be thanking my maker? Or my mother?"
"You are a beast."
He clucked her gently under the chin. "A beast you raised."
"And it wasn't an easy task," she muttered. "I can assure you of that."

-Violet & Anthony ~ Julia Quinn

In the life of Moses, in Hebrew folklore, there is a remarkable passage. Moses finds a shepherd in the desert. He spends the day with the shepherd and helps him milk his ewes, and at the end of the day he sees that the shepherd puts the best milk he has in a wooden bowl, which he places on a flat stone some distance away. So Moses asks him what it is for, and the shepherd replies 'This is God's milk.' Moses is puzzled and asks him what he means. The shepherd says 'I always take the best milk I possess, and I bring it as on offering to God.' Moses, who is far more sophisticated than the shepherd with his naive faith, asks, 'And does God drink it?' 'Yes,' replies the shepherd, 'He does.' Then Moses feels compelled to enlighten the poor shepherd and he explains that God, being pure spirit, does not drink milk. Yet the shepherd is sure that He does, and so they have a short argument, which ends with Moses telling the shepherd to hide behind the bushes to find out whether in fact God does come to drink the milk. Moses then goes out to pray in the desert. The shepherd hides, the night comes, and in the moonlight the shepherd sees a little fox that comes trotting from the desert, looks right, looks left and heads straight towards the milk, which he laps up, and disappears into the desert again. The next morning Moses finds the shepherd quite depressed and downcast. 'What's the matter?' he asks. The shepherd says 'You were right, God is pure spirit, and He doesn't want my milk.' Mose ~ Anthony Bloom

They did not understand him. Poor Dorothy had been long in the situation they seemed only to have arrived at, but she tried to tear the head off her doll and cried what sounded like Gog.
- There, you hear, her mother said. Clever girl, she crooned at her. Say God. Say sky.
- Koy.
- She has said her prayers, Kit said in weariness. ~ Anthony Burgess

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. ~ James Anthony Froude

Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me ... ~ Anthony Bourdain

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there. ~ Anthony Horowitz

I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that. ~ Anthony Hopkins

He had a particular liking for olde England, especially if the olde was spelled with an e. He found things like croquet, cream teas and cricket both incomprehensible and irresistible and he would have been in his element here. ~ Anthony Horowitz