Tarnation Movie Quotes & Sayings

Tucker doesn't see me right away. He smiles the way he does when he delivers the punch line for a joke, a wry, knowing little flash of teeth and dimple. I melt seeing that smile, remembering the times when it's been aimed at me. — Cynthia Hand

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows. — Leon Redbone

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?' — Albert Brooks

Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on. — Ramez Naam

We are but older children, dear,
Who fret to find our bedtime near. — Lewis Carroll

I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty. — Shel Silverstein

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos — Alice Randall

While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people, they finally dropped it from judo. — Dick Cavett

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others. — Rachel Joyce

Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking. — Gerald Stanley Lee

Show business always tries to stereotype you, so that is something you have to fight against no matter who you are. A lot of actors who are of a minority background complain that they only get stereotyped roles, and they are 100 percent correct. However, it's also true that, no matter who you are, you get typecast as well. — Judah Friedlander

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character. — John Lydon

The transient vacuities of our cultural icons - success, peace, happiness, and distraction - pale before the question of whether or not one experiences this life as meaningful. — James Hollis

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state. — Elizabeth Strout