Tabacki Quotes & Sayings

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain. — Kahlil Gibran

Chase said, "It was a crazy idea." An impossible idea.
"Nothing is impossible, Chase, only improbable. And when you can see into the future and manipulate people into the right places, you can accomplish amazing things."
"I think I liked the idea better when it was in my head. — Adrienne Wilder

The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject. For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern. It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who don't have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated. — Assata Shakur

Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches? ... Mathematics is, in my opinion, an indivisible whole ... May the new century bring with it ingenious champions and many zealous and enthusiastic disciples. — David Hilbert

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity. — Thomas Sowell

Sometimes loneliness is a choice. — Sabaa Tahir

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. — Frank A. Clark

First, it's used."
"Now look here," Teddy Jo growled. "It's not a Cadillac. It's a body freezer. The value doesn't drop because you drive it off the lot."
"I don't know what sort of bodies you stuck in there, Teddy. You might have put a leucrocuta in there. Those things stink."
"It's not like the dead gonna care. They can't smell shit, and they themselves ain't gonna get to smelling any better. — Ilona Andrews

My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things ... she wanted to protect me from it. — Diane Von Furstenberg

The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes. — Benoit Mandelbrot

I'm frustrated about Cathy. She's torturing herself over this guy, and he's not worth it. I should tell her the truth. I really should."
"Doesn't sound like she'd listen," Kristin said. "There are none so deaf as those listening to 'All by Myself' over and over and over again. — Justine Larbalestier

How does one grow up?" I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, "By thinking. — May Sarton

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. — Theodore White