Tanselle Too Tall Quotes & Sayings

It tastes like life."
"What?"
"Rotten and strange and rich and way, way too strong. — Adam Gidwitz

Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders. — Sebastian Junger

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

When we have complements or oppositions, change occurs. — Frederick Lenz

We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by. — Sebastian Horsley

Believe you can do it and you are halfway there — Theodore Roosevelt

Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. — Hermann Von Helmholtz

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. — Alfred Hitchcock

One thing about Kane - he never did anything by halves. — Christine Feehan

You're not too tall," Dunk blurted out. "You're just right for ... " He realized what he had been about to say, and blushed furiously. "For?" said Tanselle, cocking her head inquisitively. "Puppets," he finished lamely. — Robert Silverberg