Tarpaulins Direct Quotes & Sayings

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh. — Seneca The Younger

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles. — David James Duncan

Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young." — Vivien Leigh

I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

On page six his eyes fell on a large photograph of a wooden road sign with a sun cross painted on. Oslo 2,611 km, it said on one arm, Leningrad 5 km on the other. The article beneath was credited to Even — Jo Nesbo

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry. — James J. Kilpatrick

Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works. — Alan Moore

Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right. — George W. Bush

Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject. — Jane Austen

Caring is our curse. If we don't care, we can't get hurt. But if we didn't care, the world would be a dark place to live. We have to deal with it and realize life isn't fair. People are taken out of our lives, and others live who don't deserve to continue. — Mandi Lynn

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that. — Laura Marling

If I look at the fighters that are coming through, fighters like Carl Froch for instance, do I worry about fighters like that? Course not, I could eat them for breakfast. — Joe Calzaghe

When you study great teachers ... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. — William Glasser

When I'm with you, I feel a kind of calm I've never felt in my life. I'm tangled up in you and you're tangled up in me and it feels right. Like it was meant to be. I love you, Maddie, and I'm sorry it's taken me so long to say it to you again. — Rachel Gibson

My way through these small patches of virtual real-estate - or do I somehow imagine that I am performing some more dynamic function? The — William Gibson