Tariko University Quotes & Sayings

When someone speaks to an introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity. It is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel. — Laurie Helgoe

We were raised Methodists," Sue said. "But we converted to the Confederacy. There wasn't time for both."
"War is hell," Ed deadpanned. "And it just might send us there. — Tony Horwitz

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. — Grace Darling

Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear; they say what voters want to say. — C.L. Gammon

Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,
the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,
owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language. — Laurence Sterne

They all agreed that things were better in the old days. Some of them were sad about it and some were bitter, but it was always, 'Nothing is as good as it used to be.' I swore I would never talk like that and you know what? Now that I'm an old lady myself, I think that most things are better than they used to be. Look at the computers. Look at your sister, the cardiologist, and you, graduating from Harvard. Don't talk to me about the good old days. What was so good? — Anita Diamant

It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union. — John H. Reagan

Everything she is dwells behind her eyes. She has her father's mind. Her mother's face. And a distant, foreboding sort of intelligence that can give you wings or crush you to the earth. — Pierce Brown