Carl Tannenbaum Quotes & Sayings

And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon the observer of the universe. — John Green

You're the voice
of reason. You think of the things we forget about. — Kendare Blake

One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows. — Rachel Gibson

These days, I am the most boring, methodical runner. I always do the same three- to five-mile loop near my home every evening. I hardly ever miss a day. On the weekends, I might go longer or add in weights. — Mika Brzezinski

Your brightest self is revealed in your darkest moments. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy. — Arthur Schopenhauer

If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain. — Doug Rice

As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything. — Apolo Ohno

What advice Phelan could possibly have given him. All these myriad differences between the world he was discovering and the world he'd been taught. There was nothing in Yeats or Eliot or Browning to cover this: had the situation been reversed, Phelan would probably have been coming to him for advice. He wondered how Eliot would have fared against the look in Sutter's dead eyes. — William Gay

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

All the anxiety over small things had burned off me in the fire of reentry, the fire of being afraid I was going to die. — Jennifer Hayden