Tallises Quotes & Sayings

Within a couple of weeks even earthquake survivors return to their normal level of unfounded optimism. — Daniel M. Gilbert

Sunshine and water - the perfect recipe for happiness. — Toni Sorenson

Never let money get in the way of an idea — Damien Hirst

In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film. — Wole Soyinka

Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis in the elements of geometry. By combining at random simple truths with each other, more complicated ones are deduced from them. This is the method of discovery, the special method of inventions, contrary to popular opinion. — Andre-Marie Ampere

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics. — Marilyn Manson

We can fix that. We can fix anything. So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing. — Kaya McLaren

Her efforts received encouragement. In fact, they were welcomed as the Tallises began to understand that the baby of the family possessed a strange mind and a facility with words. The long afternoons she spent browsing through the dictionary and thesaurus made for constructions that were inept, but hauntingly so: the coins a villain concealed in his pocket were 'esoteric,' a hoodlum caught stealing a car wept in 'shameless auto-exculpation,' the heroine on her thoroughbred stallion made a 'cursory' journey through the night, the king's furrowed brow was the 'hieroglyph' of his displeasure. — Ian McEwan

I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes. — Mal Peet

You are your own best friend or worst enemy ... choose wisely! — Timothy Pina

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover. — Arthur Helps

We'll help," said one boy, his finger far enough up his nose to tickle a memory nesting in his frontal lobe. — Christopher Moore

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason. — Livy