Tactfully Def Quotes & Sayings

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche. — E. V. Lucas

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self. — Whit Burnett

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. — Josef Albers

Life is so short, no time to spare, so choose carefully, love intensely and live blissfully. — Debasish Mridha

i have a headache i bet thtat hammer will work — Shelly Laurenston

Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any step will have no impact on the macro level. — Brian Clevinger

American culture really has two souls. And it's not a question of whether the culture becomes secularized. The culture never becomes one thing or the other. The culture is always two. The culture is always William Bradford and Jonathan Edwards. The culture is always Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison. America was born just in time to have two mentalities. We're like Jacob and Esau struggling in the womb. Secular people want to believe that we are a nation of the Enlightenment, and because of the Founding Fathers and the Constitution that secularism will supersede religion. Religious people want to believe that through the revival religion will supersede secularism. And both are wrong. "What's going to happen," he said, "is that there will continue to be a constant dynamic and tension between the two, running side by side.And they're going to keep on being about that for as long as there's an American identity worth talking about. — Bruce Feiler

Though tyrants threat, though Lyons rage and rore
Defy them all, and feare not to win out. — Elizabeth Melville

What's so noble about being dead? — Dalton Trumbo

He was thinking of himself and the impression he was making, as she could tell by the sound of his voice, and his emphasis and his uneasiness. — Virginia Woolf

We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them. — Robert E.Lee

'Twilight' is such an amazing project, and I think it opened up doors for all of us cast members. — Kellan Lutz

He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work. — Norman Tebbit