Tallys Dockside Quotes & Sayings

It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style. — Florence Welch

I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response. — M.J. Rose

Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home. — Brian Rathbone

I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical problems, but I wouldn't sit down with him and talk about the distant past. It's somewhat in contrast to other Americans, who feel that they have to confess things, but I'm really not like that. — Joyce Carol Oates

You'll have more than enough people underestimating you in your lifetime, Kyali Corwynall. You cannot afford to be one of them. — Amy Bai

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality. — Jacques Maritain

Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police aren't going to come and take you away. Even William Strunk, that Mussolini of rhetoric, recognized the delicious pliability of language. "It is an old observation," he writes, "that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric." Yet he goes on to add this thought, which I urge you to consider: "Unless he is certain of doing well, [the writer] will probably do best to follow the rules." — Stephen King

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion. — Philip Schaff

If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life. — Elizabeth Lesser

I want to be free ... free to develop my art. — Natalia Makarova

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion. — Samuel Johnson

The truth may hurt, but fooling yourself will enslave you. — Charles F. Glassman

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it. — John Malkovich

What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists - all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against exploitation, racism, sexism, and capitalism. We can never have too many of these, just as we can never have too few 'conservatives'. — Grover Furr

Nature is never static, I understand. Change is ever-constant, clouds zipping across a sky. It is dynamic, complicated, tangled, mostly beautiful. A moving forward, something newly gained, means that something is lost, too. — Deb Caletti