Tence Quotes & Sayings

Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound. — Hilma Wolitzer

To try to give our infatuation a higher place than Truth is a sign of inherent slavishness. Where our minds are free we find ourselves lost. Our moribund vitality must have for its rider either some fantasy, or someone in authority, or a sanction from the pundits, in order to make it move. So long as we are
impervious to truth and have to be moved by some hypnotic stimulus, we must know that we lack the capacity for self- government. Whatever may be our condition, we shall either need some imaginary ghost or some actual medicine-man to terrorize over us. — Rabindranath Tagore

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage. — Toni Servillo

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine. — Ada Lovelace

God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in trouble. — Anonymous

principle, per-sis tence, and compassion - three — John Wooden

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn. — Sam Taylor-Wood

When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her
she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined. — Jenny Downham

When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day. — Ted Turner

On mobile phones: "It looks like a TV remote fucked a little typewriter and this is the bastard offspring — Richard Kadrey

Change, at least in my life, is more often than not a slow and steady stream. It's not an avalanche. It's more of a snowball effect. I probably shouldn't pontificate about my life using winter metaphors. I've only seen real snow three times. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier out of it, in a narrative past or a prophetic future, locked inside that weird tence grammar does not allow, the imaginary present. — John Fowles

This doesn't change anything," I stammered, my defenses fading.
"It changes everything." He sounded so sure of himself as his soft lips silenced my weak protest. — J. Sterling

You know it feels good. I can hardly geta ... I don't even ...
There was something amusing about watching him trying to form a coherent sen-tence. Amusing, but arousing at the sametime. — Charlotte Stein

A rose by any other name
Would never, never smell the same
And cunning is the nose that knows
An onion that's been called a rose. — Wendell Johnson

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school. — Matt Damon