Tamburins Quotes & Sayings

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. — Patti Smith

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government. — Edward Abbey

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come. — Alain De Botton

For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up. — Bernie Siegel

My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate. — Yoenis Cespedes

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

I do not remember much of that illness, except that I woke to find my head in Emile's lap. She looked into my eyes.
'You are a fool,' she said. It was the nicest thing she'd said to me in two years. — Christian Cameron

Right now the Seiko claimed it was sixty-two minutes past forty on a Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday in both December and March. — Stephen King

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. — James Thurber

They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it! (The men laugh, the women look abashed.) — Susan Glaspell

I hope I don't get driven to the point where, to be honest, I'm never satisfied. I hope there's some part of me that can be content. — Ben Schwartz

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it. — J.J. Abrams

I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them. — Molly Crabapple

Returning to the arched window, she lifted her eyes- scowling, poor dim-sighted Hepzibah, in the face of heaven!- and strove hard to send up a prayer through the dense grey pavement of clouds. Those mists had gathered , as if to symbolize a great, brooding mass of human trouble, doubt, confusion, and chill indifference, between earth and the better regions. Her faith was too weak; the prayer to heavy to be thus uplifted. It fell back, a lump of lead, upon her heart. It smote her with the wretched conviction that Providence intermeddled not in these petty wrongs of one individual to his fellow, nor had any balm for these little agonies of a solitary soul; but shed it's justice , and it's mercy, in a broad, sunlike sweep, over half the universe at once. It's vastness made it nothing. But Hepzibah did not see that, just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need — Nathaniel Hawthorne