Tamminen Mine Quotes & Sayings

Unquenchable is a worthy successor to Cadillac Desert that ably demonstrates how our most valuable resource is being squandered, ignored, and flushed away. Although it reminds us that water is indeed finite, Unquenchable clearly shows us the solutions to the greatest threat of the 21st century are limited only by politics and greed. — Terry Tamminen

I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where decisions made in the first impact the last. — Marcus Sakey

Go Green, Live Rich is the ultimate toolkit for greening the planet and our wallets at the same time. No one does a better job than David Bach in showing us the practical strategies for how to enjoy living sustainably. — Terry Tamminen

I'm sorry I can't give you the normal life you wanted, but I promise to adore you every day for the rest of your new one. — Jeaniene Frost

I write one poem a year, usually in January or February. — Emily Susan Rapp

A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality. — George Saunders

We cannot say what new structures will replace the ones we live with yet, because once we have torn shit down, we will inevitably see more and see differently and feel a new sense of wanting and being and becoming. What we want after "the break" will be different from what we think we want before the break and both are necessarily different from the desire that issues from being in the break. — Anonymous

Curious, sometimes, how one's thoughts seemed to swing in a kaleidoscope. It happened to me now. A bewildering shuffling and reshuffling of memories, of events. Then the mosaic settled into its true pattern. — Agatha Christie

Portland, Maine, is more like a big town than a booming metropolis. It was built around fishing, turned to manufacturing, but then eventually became one of those cities that you don't really know why it exists other than to take care of itself. The population was only around sixty thousand, but that still made it the biggest city in Maine. — D.J. MacHale

Nothing easier. One step beyond the pole, you see, and the north wind becomes a south one. — Robert Peary

It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways. — Michael Leunig

I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns. — Guido Westerwelle

Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can, — Joe Abercrombie

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. — Johann Sebastian Bach

If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows. — Plato

Dairyman Crick's household of maids and man lived on comfortably, placidly, even merrily. Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which needliness ends, and below the line at which the 'convenances' begin to cramp natural feelings, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough — Thomas Hardy

I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence. — Mark Millar