Tantalizingly Def Quotes & Sayings

But the characteristic that is truly special about our species ... [is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme ... — Arthur C. Clarke

If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea
Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be. — Ma Rainey

The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit. — Earl Weaver

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. — James Madison

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage. — Stevie Wonder

On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies. — Sun Tzu

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself. — Beck

If you never fall in love with your character, you'll never be able to do that character justice. No matter who it is, no matter what the character does, you have to find the reason for it. Everyone's got a reason for what they do, even if it's a reason that they're not proud of. — Hugh Jackman

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I caught her red-handed with her hands down his pants."
"You did not," Fancy told Madda sternly, with as much dignity as she was able. "It was just one hand. — Dia Reeves

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them. — Katori Hall