Tefty Quotes & Sayings

It is childish to study a work of fiction in order to gain information about a country or about a social class or about the author. — Vladimir Nabokov

They'd shoot me on sight." Rafe took my hand from his cheek, holding it curled in his own. "Can't blame them. I'd shoot me."
My heart lurched. "What does that mean? Rafe? — Kat Falls

Memories are like Teek." said Pixie Pan, "You never can tell." (Teek being a compulsive lying and commitment-shy poltergeist.) — Stacey Lane

Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food, shelter or clothing ... raises manual labor that might be drudgery to the plane of intelligent effort that is always self-respecting ... Home economics is not one department, in the sense in which dairying or entomology or soils is a department. It is not a single speciality ... Many technical and educational departments will grow out of it as time goes on. — Martha Van Rensselaer

There buds the promise of celestial worth. — Edward Young

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers. — Franz Grillparzer

There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts ... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element. — Carl Jung

Paul Newman is a sex symbol. — Maud Adams

We have seen that improved agents of destruction advance production by continually enlarging its outlets. The security of civilisation has been assured neither by the arts of peace nor yet by those of war, but by the cooperation of both — Gustave De Molinari

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave. — Deval Patrick

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine. — Samuel Butler

I want to be in her arms. I want to wrap my arms around her and pull her into me and lose myself in her. — Kristen Proby

The unspooling of the skein of the genome has effectively abolished racism and creationism, and the amazing findings of Hubble and Hawking have allowed us to guess at the origins of the cosmos. But how much more addictive is the familiar old garbage about tribe and nation and faith. — Christopher Hitchens

Rebellion never goes without consequences. — Andy Stanley