#cent

Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self." "Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before. "Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #humor #jace-wayland #magnificent

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it. ↗

— John Masefield

#dies #generous #insufferable #made #man

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#being #career #center #change #changed

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#districts #england #large #manufactures #morality

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#boxer #boxing #higher #i #land

The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to. ↗

— Rue McClanahan

#because #different #differently #everything #great

A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#count #ever #generally #glad #governor

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. ↗

— Tug McGraw

#good times #i #irish #ninety #other

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. ↗

— Robert Menzies

#concentrated #contribute #country #example #his

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#back #british #british government #cared #centuries