John Tourettes Quotes & Sayings

This total failure to address the diet/cancer relationship is most disturbing to ... those ... informed ... — George McGovern

Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing. — Hannah More

When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, Is this necessary at this point in the book? — Pat Conroy

But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. — Frederic Bastiat

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know. — Neale Donald Walsch

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Absolutely, all guitars are different. You can go into a store and grab five guitars, all the same model, and even though they look identical they're not identical. They play differently, they feel a bit different and they sound slightly different. — John McLaughlin

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art. — Andre Malraux

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930) — Philip Wylie

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want. — George Lucas

By early 1979, the border area is a dead-eyed, stinking hell. He signs on as an aid worker with the Red Cross and they give him a stipend and a room. In January, the Vietnamese Communists crossed the Cambodian border, swept the Khmer Rouge aside, and took Phnom Penh in less than two weeks. The refugees wash up in their black clothes, so debilitated and disturbed that Hiroji thinks he is walking through an exhumed cemetery, they are more soil and sickness than human beings. — Madeleine Thien

His words sliced through my heart, cutting it into little pathetic pieces. — Maria V. Snyder

I hope I was a good example of women's tennis. — Victoria Azarenka