Tahdig Quotes & Sayings

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line. — Charles Bukowski

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods. — Geraldine Ferraro

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position. — Immanuel Wallerstein

Ride it, Big Bill!" Richie screamed, so scared he was nearly creaming his jeans but laughing wildly all the same. "Stand on this baby! — Stephen King

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young. — Alma Guillermoprieto

I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive. — Lana Del Rey

The cheese stands alone
The cheese stands alone
Heigh-ho the merry-o
The cheese stands alone — Robert Cormier

The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. — Paul Bowles

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship. — Alexander Pope

A mind with absolutely no insight into itself, a mind filled with purpose and delusion. — Louise Penny

The Mob essentially created the term 'stand-up comic' - according to eighty-six-year-old comedian Dick Curtis: 'The Outfit used to manage fighters. A stand-up fighter is a guy that is a puncher. A stand-up guy was a guy who was tough and you could depend on. The Outfit managed fighters and they managed clubs that booked comics, so the term found its way into the lexicon of nightclubs. A guy who just stood there and punched jokes - joke, joke, joke - he was a stand-up comic. — Kliph Nesteroff

One of its sources [Leaf by Niggle] was a great-limbed poplar tree that I could see even lying in bed. It was suddenly lopped and mutilated by its owner, I do not know why. It is cut down now, a less barbarous punishment for any crimes it might have been accused of, such as being large and alive. I do not think it had any friends, or any mourners, except myself and a pair of owls. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Take control over your skin by using an acne treatment system that actually works: Proactiv+. — Adam Levine

One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it. — Billy Collins