Tenniel Tweedle Quotes & Sayings

I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.' — Buzz Aldrin

Afraid of? she managed. — Terry Pratchett

Winners have to absorb losses. — Ice-T

It was the very worst kind of Banbury-Road house, depressing, with laurels. The front door was opened by a slut. I had never seen a slut before but recognized the genus without difficulty as soon as I set eyes on this one. — Nancy Mitford

Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night."
Beast: "You do not believe me then?"
Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise."
Beast: "You will find no mirrors here, for I cannot bear them: nor any quiet water in ponds. And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful? — Robin McKinley

Libraries) Getting the Word Out: Academic Libraries and Scholarly Publishing, edited by Maria Bonn and Mike Furlough. As Courant and Jones — Alice Crawford

Whites were bright as fresh-fallen snow, yellow shone like gold, reds turned to flame, but the shadows were so black they looked like holes in the world. — George R R Martin

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Because my hands are rough and wrinkley, they are my least favourite feature. An ex-boyfriend used to call them 'Freddy Kreuger' fingers. — Tyra Banks

Our fellow-citizens, as they now realized, had never thought that our little town might be a place particularly chosen as one where rats die in the sun and concierges perish from peculiar illnesses. — Albert Camus

We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like. Methinks there is equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance, what we will call Beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance? What we call knowledge is often our positive ignorance; ignorance our negative knowledge. — Henry David Thoreau

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"I recall what you said to me once," Will went on. "That words have the power to change us. Your words have changed me, Tess; they have made me a better man than I would have been otherwise. Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die - — Cassandra Clare

Were you BORN inhuman or did you grow so by degrees?! MS, MD, PHD? — Lois McMaster Bujold

Now we are seeing the disadvantage of not knowing every language," said Conseil "or is it the disadvantage of not having a universal language? — Jules Verne