Tacconellis Maple Quotes & Sayings

When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them up and tell them, 'Get the hell out of my life.' You don't need them. Writing is tough enough without having people around you who contribute to a writer's insecurity. — Ray Bradbury

We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform. And men of genius ought not to be chagrined if they see themselves neglected. For when we communicate knowledge, we are raised in our own estimation; but when we receive it, we are lowered. — Charles Caleb Colton

I'm very cheerful about coming back to the U.K. We increasingly found ourselves gravitating towards London. There was so much going on for our business, and we had grown substantially here. — Jim Ratcliffe

And on this dirty night there were appropriately dirty deeds that not even the rain could wash away. — Terry Pratchett

For the law is not jurisprudence, not a weighty tome full of articles, not philosophical treatises, not peevish nonsense about justice, not hackneyed platitudes about morality and ethics. The law means safe paths and highways. It means backstreets one can walk along even after sundown. It means inns and taverns one can leave to visit the privy, leaving one's purse on the table and one's wife beside it. The law is the sleep of people certain they'll be woken by the crowing of the rooster and not the crashing of burning roof timbers! And for those who break the law; the noose, the axe, the stake and the red-hot iron! Punishments which deter others. — Andrzej Sapkowski

You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something. — Alan Furst

This world seems to have different rules from the other world I've been living in all of my life. I wonder if I'll ever learn them. — Lauren Graham

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time. — Mike Quade

The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off.
A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has its own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you. — Terry Pratchett

'Someone's gonna die before this is over,' I said to Doc McGhee. [...]
'I don't think someone's gonna die, Ozzy. I think we're all gonna die.' — Ozzy Osbourne

There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day. — John Green

Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin. — Thomas De Maiziere

His eyes follow me everywhere, and we keep sharing smiles that feel like secrets.(Kiersten White) — Stephanie Perkins

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes. — Tom Stoppard

Freedom of choice comes at the price of intermittent insanity. — Abram Gitspof