Tarnell Abbott Quotes & Sayings

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think. — H.L. Mencken

She was more like riding a sofa than a horse, with her broad back and sides curved like a hogshead of beer. — Diana Gabaldon

Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with all the difficulties and all the difficult rules that were implemented in Russia at that time. — Vladimir Potanin

It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know. — Shea Hembrey

No," he said after a pause, "the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own. They do not even withhold their own existence from his sports. Jove may favor Lucianos of Samosata. As long as your mockery is in true godly taste you may mock at the gods and still remain a sound devotee. But in pitying, or condoling with your god, you deny and annihilate him, and such is the most horrible of atheisms. — Karen Blixen

The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to find a persona that is very much like you, but slightly caricatured. — Anne Fadiman

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight. — Laura Marling

My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice. — Eudora Welty

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system. — Henry Paulson

God help us we're in the hands of engineers. — Jeff Goldblum

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media. — Kevin Rose

Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends. — Hailee Steinfeld

To enjoy the now. It'll be gone soon enough, and no one knows what the next hour, much less tomorrow, will bring. — Nalini Singh

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it. — Audrey Tautou