Tapiovaara Pirkka Quotes & Sayings

I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that. — Carrie Fisher

The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world. — Sara Paretsky

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think. — Chris Parnell

My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things. — Robbie Robertson

The mind is what the mind is fed. — David J. Schwartz

Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw. — Erma Bombeck

Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad. — Jenny Colgan

I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling to the way a book does its magic, but to find a cinematic equivalent. — Emma Donoghue

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Fairy godmothers?" said the king dubiously. "We'll have a time getting that past the court council - and the bishop. — Robin McKinley

Familiarity is the dagger thrust into the heart of fear. — Todd Stocker

I'm good with getting older because I feel like, one day, I know I will love myself. — Amanda Seyfried

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats. — Terry Pratchett

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? — Anthony Hope