Tartle Quotes & Sayings

The pause in conversation when you're about to introduce someone but you've forgotten their name. There's a word for it. In Scotland, it's called a tartle. — Robyn Schneider

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: 'Tell me! Tell me!' The stories choose me. — Eduardo Galeano

Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change. — Amelia Bloomer

A book might be written on the injustice of the just. — Pauline Kael

The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid. — Julie Rivkin

Never waste an unsaid word of praise and never praise the said words of anger. — Terry Blakeman

If I have learned anything from hip-hop, it's that there's nothing sexy about a baby that ain't yours. — Amy Poehler

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death. — Pearl S. Buck

And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings. — George Pattison

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank. — Paul Singer

What's worse is the louder I am, the less they hear. — Jamie McGuire

Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor. — Dixie Carter

The direction Eun Gi is trying to go, I don't know. How you're going to go that way. What you're trying to do going that way. I don't know. With what thoughts ... With what mind she is taking that way ... Even if I ask, Eun Gi won't answer. The only thing I know, is that, I, next to Eun Gi who is going that way, it could be that I can't go that way with her together. — Ma-Roo

I don't want the horse to get trained, because training the horse is absolutely finite. But if you get the horse to where he operates as if to be your legs, an extension of you, you've far-exceeded that whole training notion. — Buck Brannaman

Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell. — Laura Lee Guhrke