Tawnys Quotes & Sayings

Lexi screamed and almost dropped her bowl of popcorn. — M. Stratton

Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business. — John Catsimatidis

Only under extreme pressure can we change into that which it is in our most profound nature to become ...
That is what people get wrong about transformation. We're not all shallow proteans, forever shifting shape. We're not science fiction. It's like when coal becomes diamond. It doesn't afterwards retain the possibility of change. Squeeze it as hard as you like, it won't turn into a rubber ball, or a Quattro Stagione pizza, or a self-portrait by Rembrandt. It's done. — Salman Rushdie

Mother is God in the eyes of a child. — William Makepeace Thackeray

A landscape that has the power to ask anyone, at any time, to measure all the hidden parts of themselves. — Rachel Weaver

You're supposed to be a spirit of intellect. I don't understand why you're obsessed with sex."
Bob's voice got defensive. "It's an academic interest, Harry."
"Oh yeah? Well maybe I don't think it's fair to let your academia go peeping in other people's houses."
"Wait a minute. My academia doesn't just peep -"
I held up a hand. "Save it. I don't want to hear it."
He grunted. "You're trivializing what getting out for a bit means to me, Harry. You're insulting my masculinity."
"Bob," I said, "you're a skull . You don't have any masculinity to insult."
"Oh yeah?" Bob challenged me. "Pot kettle black, Harry! Have you gotten a date yet? Huh? Most men have something better to do in the middle of the night than play with their chemistry sets. — Jim Butcher

The next day we were all shooting up.
"Jeez. Look at the size of the cotton he just threw in the spoon."
"Yea. What are you trying to prove?"
They had a good laugh at my expense. — Carl-John X. Veraja

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean. — Hilaire Belloc

A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain. — John Cage

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character. — Vera Farmiga

Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers. — Mark Steyn

The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been. — John Greenleaf Whittier