Tayntons Quotes & Sayings

Jesus, Jess, it would be nice if you stayed out of life-and-death scenarios for five minutes. — Amanda Carlson

You don't so much as become an atheist as find out that's what you are. There's no moment of conversion. You don't suddenly think 'I don't believe this anymore.' You essentially find you don't believe it. — Christopher Hitchens

A red dragonfly hovers above a backwater of the stream, its wings moving so fast that the eye sees not wings in movement but a probability distribution of where the wings might be, like electron orbitals: a quantum-mechanical effect that maybe explains why the insect can apparently teleport from one place to another, disappearing from one point and reappearing a couple of meters away, without seeming to pass through the space in between. There sure is a lot of bright stuff in the jungle. Randy figures that, in the natural world, anything that is colored so brightly must be some kind of serious evolutionary badass. — Neal Stephenson

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. — George Eliot

It's so flattering to know that Wilton is a fan of mine, because I've been a big fan of theirs for a long time. I use their products when I bake, and I can't wait to see what ideas we come up with together. — Rosanna Pansino

In money matters no relationship counts; money hardens all hearts. — Matilde Serao

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it. — Margaret Benson

chant: "We need a _ floppy; We need a _ floppy!" Jobs agreed only to include a floppy drive on a later model. Still, the Japanese company Canon was impressed enough to invest $100 million in 1989 for a 16.7 percent piece of the company, giving NeXT important cash while it tried to roll out its computers. By then, however, much had changed in the — Karen Blumenthal

Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality ... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful. — Dan Simmons

Thought can wing its way
Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam
That hastens on the pinions of the morn. — James Gates Percival

Oh god
Let all lovers be content
Give them happy endings
Let their lives be celebrations
Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love — Rumi

Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life. — Tony Bennett

People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had. — Michael Ende

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine. — Kage Baker