Tabiyas Quotes & Sayings

Art has more ego to it than what I do. — Eva Zeisel

The three of us stood there for a minute. I don't know what Stew was thinking, and the filing cabinet wasn't thinking anything. But I was thinking, is this the world? Is this really the place in which you've ended up, Snicket? It was a question that struck me, as it might strike you, when something ridiculous was going on, or something sad. I wondered if this was really where I should be, or if there was another world someplace, less ridiculous and less sad. But I never knew the answer to the question. Perhaps I had been in another world before I was born, and did not remember it, or perhaps I would see another world when I died, which I was in no hurry to do. In the meantime, I was stuck in the police station, doing something so ridiculous it felt sad, and feeling so sad it was ridiculous. The world of the police station, the world of Stain'd-by-the-Sea and all of the wrong questions I was asking, was was the only world I could see. — Lemony Snicket

I think women who don't understand boundaries are fascinating. — Elizabeth Reaser

Cookies, a dragon dog, and a sword: what every well-equipped little girl takes on a journey. — Deborah Blake

What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something. — Kangana Ranaut

Kariakin-Shirov saw another theoretical battle in the 6 ... Bc5 Spanish, which has been one of the opening tabiyas of the event. [ ... ] The most remarkable feature of the game, and a testament to the depth of Kariakin's preparation, is that when the draw was agreed at move 39, his clock showed 1.52 remaining, some twelve minutes more than he started the game with! — Steve Giddins

This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth
ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!
- Letter to J. H. Twichell, 1/29/1901 — Mark Twain

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: 'Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.' It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government. — Henry Hazlitt

There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that's going to eat you. — Jim Carrey

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved. — Marie De France