The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.
I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.
Money is life to us wretched mortals.
Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Law , the king of all mortals and immortals.
It's my belief that when you're dealing with the supernatural, the supernatural still has to trump we mortals, it still has to be more powerful than we are. You can't really defeat it. You can live to fight another day but it's very rare that a human being can actually destroy a supernatural force.
I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.
God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.
I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals.
Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.
There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness. . .
The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.
Oh what fools we mortals are.
Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.