Tatton Baird Quotes & Sayings

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer. — Tanith Lee

If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In hindsight, I know that high school is a festering pit of boredom and hormones, not to be taken as seriously as it seemed while I was there. It is earthly purgatory before you enter the better parts of your life: you've got one foot in heaven and the other in hell. — Alida Nugent

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life. — H.W. Brands

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. — H.L. Mencken

To search for a solutions, knowing that the problem is insoluble; to serve, while smiling at what one serves; to subject oneself to an iron discipline, without end and without profit; to write, in the profound conviction that one's work has no importance; to know, to understand, and to tolerate, while constantly bearing in mind the painful uselessness of being right ... — Henry De Montherlant

I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me. — Holly Hood

Michael, some people are just confused about their sexuality, trying to come to terms with it. There are others who are bisexual too; it doesn't mean she was trying to deceive you. She must have just been very confused. — Stevan V. Nikolic

Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can. — John Lennon