Tangchitnob Quotes & Sayings

There's one consolation," said Bee. "We're all used up. We'll never be of any use to him again. — Kurt Vonnegut

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run. — Sonia Sotomayor

Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house! — Jerry Lewis

I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens. — Haruki Murakami

I can't stomach most of the movies about women. — Amy Heckerling

In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too. — Burt Rutan

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops — George Eliot

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Howard Zinn

He's often wished that he could capture the full essence of each woman's laugh on canvas, but he settles instead, on watching how, when a woman chuckles, her head moves slightly to the left or right so that the light grazes it at a new angle and creates a new pattern of highlight and shadow. It's this subtle shifting that he finds astounding - how everything and nothing can be written on a face through its lines, through the way skin around the eyes crinkle or how the shifting of a mouth belies joy or sarcasm or simple placation. He wonders what Vermeer might have said to that girl with the pearl earring, what words could have stirred in her that wanton expression, because even amateurs understand that faces allow an entry point and that negative space is the key to any good painting: what isn't included is sometimes more important than what is. — Adam Gallari

The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible. — Mariano Rajoy

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography. — Manuel Alvarez Bravo