Tamborine Tower Quotes & Sayings

As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning. — Frederick Lenz

The greater part performed achieves the less. — John Dryden

Well, it all started when I figured out that the janitor at my high school was the Angel of Death ... — Matt Ruff

The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger. — Laura Kasischke

I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach. — Ireland Baldwin

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it. — Jerry Reed

Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive. — Kinky Friedman

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices. — Peter Lewis Allen

Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present — Paulo Coelho

When the unwanted Guest Arrives i might be afraid i might be smile or say : my day was good let night fall — Paulo Coelho

By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off. — Peter Diamandis

She has shared her hurt with me, and now a little bit of it is mine. This thing she couldn't bear alone, I can bear some of it, I can be hurt, too, and here's the thing you'd never expect about this kind of second-hand-hurt - it feels so good, it makes you feel whole, it makes you feel necessary, and even if you don't realize it right away, you'll find, as time passes, as the bearing of the hurt further intoxicates you, makes you more fully hers and she more fully yours, that you'll do anything to keep it; you'll say anything, you'll believe anything, you'll compromise anything, you'll build your self-worth around that tiny grain of hurt she lent you, and in return you'll hold her chin in your hand and run your thumb over the corner of her mouth and tickle the back of her earlobe with your finger and whisper to her over and over and over that "it's okay, it's okay, it's okay - — Jared Young

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism — Alan Hollinghurst

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I'm interested in. — Zachary Schomburg

NO! Don't force yourself to be alone! If you're alive, you can meet that person, somewhere, someday! The person that will be glad that you're alive! You can't ... you can't want yourself to die!! So ... live ... — Yukiru Sugisaki