Temmincks Courser Quotes & Sayings

In the midst of this hormonal gloom, however, the calvary finally arrives, over the hill, jangling its spurs, and epaulettes shining in the sun: my green library card. Now I'm 13, I can get adult books out of the library, without having to borrow my parents'cards. And that means I can get secret books out. Dirty books. Books with sex in. — Caitlin Moran

Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates itself, so also does the multiplicity of the appearances of the world have ONE center, which orders and holds everything together. — Valentin Tomberg

I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions. — Gore Vidal

Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness. — Stella Young

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite. — Auguste Escoffier

She had not known how to tell him that his loving whispers were always in her ears, like a story she'd been told, the story of a thing she did not deserve. But he understood. He called those thoughts "the baby teeth of a snake," and swore he would rip them out of her, and pledged to prove to her that the opposite was true. And he didn't even have to explain to her what he meant by "the opposite"; she knew it was the opposite of her. — David Grossman

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day. — Christopher Hitchens

I can guarantee people, then, that if they learn, discover, understand, explore, and apply the same principles that I learned, that success is predictable. — Myles Munroe

I don't have anyone telling me to change things or giving me unwanted opinions. It's just me and my band making music. It's nice for a change. — Kevin Fowler

The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The Americans were very clever; they sent rockets into space and invented machines which could think more quickly than any human being alive, but all this cleverness could also make them blind. They did not understand other people. They thought that everyone looked at things in the same way as Americans did, but they were wrong. Science was only part of the truth. There were also many other things that made the world what it was, and the Americans often failed to notice these things, although they were there all the time, under their noses. — Alexander McCall Smith

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted. — Rush Limbaugh

In this day ... community has come to mean less a geographic neighborhood than a broader, sketchier network of colleagues and kindred spirits. — Leah Hager Cohen

But old wounds don't stop aching. They are always under the surface, ready to remind one of the original injuries. — Anne Perry

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct. — Rick Perlstein