T8000tbk Quotes & Sayings

Some friendship is closely akin to treachery. — Robert N. Lee

Wall Street's shenanigans have convinced a large portion of America that the economic game is rigged. Yet capitalism depends on trust. Without trust, people avoid even sensible economic risks. They also begin trading in gray markets and black markets. They think that if the big guys cheat in big ways, they may as well begin cheating in small ways. And when they think the game is rigged, they're easy prey for political demagogues with fast tongues and dumb ideas. Wall — Robert B. Reich

I grasp his salt and pepper hair to steady myself as his tongue lingers and plays, making my legs feel weak with desire.
- from The Gorgeous Girls by Marie Wilson — Marie Wilson

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction. — Don Mattingly

Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are. — Tony Robbins

Ever peaceful be you slumber
Though your days were few in number
On this earth-spite took its toll-
Yet shall heaven have your soul
With pure love we did regard you
For your loved one did we guard you
But you came not to the groom
Only to a chill dark tomb — Alexander Pushkin

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking. — David Bailey

It takes a long time to drag myself out of bed, and at night I'm buzzing. As a young man it was helpful, but now I'd like to be tired when I go to bed and alive in the morning. — David Morrissey

I will tie the glass and stone with string, hang the shards above my bed, so that they will flash in the dark and tell the story of Katrina, the mother that swept into the Gulf and slaughtered. Her chariot was a storm so great and black the Greeks would say it was harnessed to dragons. She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies, as blind puppies, as sun-starved newly hatched baby snakes. She left us a dark Gulf and salt burned land. She left us to learn to crawl. She left us to salvage. Katrina is the mother we will remember until the next mother with large, merciless hands, committed to blood, comes. — Jesmyn Ward

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio. — Ira Glass

We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community. — Margaret Visser

She didn't want to run, period. It made her breasts feel like they were going to detach from her body. — Rainbow Rowell