Tellinidae Quotes & Sayings

I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world, including many prose writers, doesn't recognize as discipline. It is, though. It's the discipline to endure hours that you refuse to fill with anything but the possibility of poetry, though you may in fact not be able to write a word of it just then, and though it may be playing practical havoc with your life. It's the discipline of preparedness. — Christian Wiman

I never do anything that pleases you, so maybe we are better off apart. — Brandy

I mean, when you think about it, jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get in a plane, it defies the gravity of an entire planet by exploiting a loophole with air pressure, and it flies across distances that would take months or years to cross by any means of travel that has been significant for more than a century or three. You hurtle above the earth at enough speed to kill you instantly should you bump into something, and you can only breathe because someone built you a really good tin can that has seams tight enough to hold in a decent amount of air. Hundreds of millions of man-hours of work and struggle and research, blood, sweat, tears, and lives have gone into the history of air travel, and it has totally revolutionized the face of our planet and societies. But get on any flight in the country, and I absolutely promise you that you will find someone who, in the face of all that incredible achievement, will be willing to complain about the drinks. The drinks, people. — Jim Butcher

Fearing one enemy too much may lead you right into the arms of another. — M.B. Watson

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. — Confucius

Sex sells, but doesn't work so well as a strong-arm tactic. Give me your purse or I'll make out with you so hard. — Dov Davidoff

The earth has lots of love to give, if you just know where to dig. My advice is start in the cemetery. — Jarod Kintz

It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar. — Dane Cook

I understand a lot of the female needs. I'm not saying I know all of them all the time though. — Jared Leto

I am an honest man by nature, but as I live in society I try not to arouse anyone's resentment and sometimes I am compelled to lie in this endeavour. As soon as honesty becomes compatible with daily social life, I will stop telling such lies. — Soseki Natsume

Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy. — T. J. Miller