Tatakis Van Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert put down the magazine he was looking at and politely said he hoped I was recovering from my injury. I said I was.
"I've never been hurt, really hurt," he went on, "that I can remember. I've tried hurting myself, of course, but that's not the same thing. It just made me uncomfortable and irritable and sweat a lot."
"That's pretty much the same thing," I said. — Dashiell Hammett

Strike me silly,' said Mr Owens, 'if that isn't a baby.'
'Of course it's a baby,' said his wife. And the question is, what is to be done with it?'
'I dare say that is a question, Mistress Owens,' said her husband. 'And yet, it is not our question. For this here baby is unquestionably alive, and as such is nothing to do with us, and is no part of our world. — Neil Gaiman

There's nothing better than a 200 lb snatch, if you know what I mean. — Brad Sherwood

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly. — Albert Camus

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made). — Yony Leyser

I try to stay fit. I try and do something every day but I don't jog. My body hates jogging. — Liam Neeson

The negotiations must address all aspects, both peace and withdrawal. — Yitzhak Rabin

For success is for the ignorant
That is what makes it original — Priscilla Koranteng

Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious; holding on against impossible odds in impossible situations over impossible lengths of time. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. — Ayn Rand

Only once can I say "I'm dying" without telling a lie. The best day of my life may already be behind me. — Edouard Leve

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses. — Gale Norton

Oscar was raised to believe that if he stayed in his room reading about made up worlds it meant he didn't appreciate the life he had, the possessions his parents had worked hard for, like the TV and the video and the newly turfed back garden. — Benjamin Wood

When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section. — Gardner Dozois