Notitimba Quotes & Sayings

We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me. — Steve Jobs

I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes. — Tom Waits

The Stetson passage is an allusion to Frazer theory in The Golden Bough that religion originated as agricultural engineering. Through a grotesque process of literalization, all of the dying gods and heroes in The Golden Bough, along with Christ and the Fisher King, are transferred from mythic to modern consciousness ( Frazer himself was an unabashed positivist) to be made explicable in scientific terms as fertilizer. — Jewel Spears Brooker

If I ever retire, I want it to be in the KISS-FM jersey. — Kidd Kraddick

They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities. — Ransom Riggs

He might have mocked himself if he hadn't been tired of always mocking at what others took seriously. It was easier to mock, of course, but other people refrained, and not always because they lacked the imagination or sense of humor required to mock. Sometimes they refrained because they dared to long for something that was not easily grasped, something that might slip away if one did not pay it the proper respect - prayerful respect, the sort that moved one to remove one's hat by the side of a grave, or to bow one's head to soldiers marching off to war, even while damning the fat MPs that sent them to die. Life was not all for mockery. Nor was laughter. But it was harder to spot the prayerful moments when they called for laughter instead of tears. Tears spelled an end. Laughter could spell a beginning. — Meredith Duran

I've never read anything that could speak directly to my bones. — Tahereh Mafi

The object of government is the welfare of the people. — Theodore Roosevelt

Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you. — Fran Lebowitz

God demonstrates generosity, then asks it from His people. — Max Anders

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do. — Eric Williams

If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level. — Armond White

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong. — Bob Ehrlich

I seriously love these socks."
"Give me back my foot," I ordered.
"It's not so much the fact that they've got reindeers on them or that they go all the way up to your knees." As if that were some kind of great distance. "But it's the fact that they're like mittens on your feet. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights. — George Burns