Tayahin Quotes & Sayings

During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus did suffer nostalgia, and remembered almost nothing.
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For four long books of the Odyssey he had retraced in detail his adventures before the dazzled Phaeacians. But in Ithaca he was not a stranger, he was one of their own, so it never occurred to anyone to say, 'Tell us! — Milan Kundera

Eisenhower admitted that the budget can't be balanced and McCarthy said the communists are taking over. You don't know what to worry about these days - whether the country will be overthrown or overdrawn. — Bob Hope

Oh ye! Who have your eye-balls vexed and tired,
Feast them upon the wideness of the sea — John Keats

It's kind of hard to find something that will get your juices flowing if you're somewhat critical. I have a hard time finding great things for myself in '94 and certainly in '95. — Dick Latvala

From her pocket Karamander took a vial of black liquid labelled: "Headbanger. Maximum strength." With a long pipette she dropped the liquid into Oraton-Marr's mouth, then she held his nose closed until he swallowed it... "He is asleep. He will sleep for seven days. And when he wakes he will have the worst headache imaginable. I have something that will cure it if he wishes to ask me. But he will have to come to me in person and ask very, very nicely indeed. — Angie Sage

There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome ... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want. — Anthony Robbins

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. — Emile Zola

I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end. — John Gordon Sinclair

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today. — Og Mandino

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful. — Abby Sunderland

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper. — Abraham Lincoln

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former ... — Barry Unsworth

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function. — Dave Holland

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains. — Robert Zemeckis

I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, 'don't smoke marijuana, it will kill you'. — Irvine Welsh