Tarynscala Quotes & Sayings

Total disengagement is itself a privilege of a cultural Christendom that is fast passing away. — Russell D. Moore

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has. — Agatha Christie

Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties. — John Stuart Mill

She said to me, "How is it going, Mitch?" I said, "Okay." But this is not really true, because she did not specify what "it" was and I did not immediately assume "it" referred to any preexisting situation in my life. I'm sure she didn't have any idea what "it" was either. She just said, "How is it going, Mitch," because she wanted to say something aloud in public. Basically, she asked a question she didn't understand, and I gave an affirmative response to that question, even though I did not know what I was responding to. Neither of us cared about what the other person was talking about or how the other person felt. We expressed two ideas that seemed to be interconnected, but neither of them was true. They were just words. They were neither good nor bad. They could have been any words, really.] — Chuck Klosterman

The typical modern has the look of the hunted. — Richard M. Weaver

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself. — Ben Stein

We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom. — Thomas Harris

By dinnertime, Amanda had managed to pick off all of her red nail polish purely out of habit. She was disappointed and silently cursed at herself when she remembered not having anymore to put on. She stared at her fingernails for about twenty minutes for lack of something better to do. — Jason Medina

A star can win any game; a team can win every game. — Jack Ramsay

At 70, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that "this too, shall pass. — Joseph P. Lash

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyway, I think I met him sometime before, in a different life or where I record. I mean he was Adam, I think I was Eve, but my vision ends with the apple on the tree — Nicki Minaj