Semisch Tim Quotes & Sayings

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing. — Herbie Mann

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time. — Kim Wilde

The sensibilities and the emotions of Muslims must be taken into consideration in the context in which we live today. — Anjem Choudary

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism. — John Stuart Mill

The infrastructure of today's computing environment is for good or ill structured around the Windows operating system. Can you get around that? Yes you can, but you have to work harder to do that and most individuals and most corporations are not going to make that extra effort. — Mark Hall

Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens. — Jami Gertz

Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process, sit down at 8 A.M. and won't get up until 8 P.M. — Rick Riordan

What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. I wanted strength, not tea parties. What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live. — Annie Dillard

Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish. — Larry David

The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way. — Gina Barreca