Tavallaei Quotes & Sayings

An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005 — Simon Barnes

See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads. — David Bowie

God doesn't know things. He is things. — D.H. Lawrence

The man who walks in the shadow of vengeance is a different man from the man who walks in the light of justice. — Graeme Rodaughan

No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth. — Stanley Ellin

You're not safe with me." He reached for the neckline of her bodice and yanked it together. While he fumbled to fasten it, Beatrix hiked up the side of her dress. A tug and a wriggle, and her petticoat dropped to the floor.
"I can undress faster than you can dress me," she informed him. — Lisa Kleypas

Faith of that sort - the sort that can stand up at least for a while in a confrontation with reason - is now plainly impossible. — Christopher Hitchens

One does not need the size of a dragon to have the soul of a dragon. — Robin Hobb

The Way It Is

There's a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn't change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can't get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time's unfolding.
You don't ever let go of the thread.

~ William Stafford ~ — William Stafford

An incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it. — L. E. J. Brouwer

If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag, fight for the government, he knows enough to vote. — Frederick Douglass

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank. — John Cale