Tentanes Quotes & Sayings

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? "She drove me to my practice at four in the morning," etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home. — Paul Theroux

He is a prize," said Torveld warmly. "I'll wager you never thought a prince could be jealous of a slave. Right now I would exchange places with you in a heartbeat." You — C.S. Pacat

It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood. — Alice Oswald

There's no end. There's no end

to this world, everlasting.
We crumble to dust in its arms. — Patrick Phillips

It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound. — Henry David Thoreau

I thought that I needed a church and hundreds of guests and music that
actually sounded like music, but I was wrong.
What I needed was a drunken priest, irreverent guests, and a companion
who learned to play piano from a goat."
"Then you got exactly what you needed."
"I suppose so. But then again, all I really needed was you. — Julia Quinn

I like surprises. — Christopher Hitchens

Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe. — Rene Descartes

When you use the term 'cost per lead' you make marketing a cost center. Instead say 'investment per lead.' — Jon Miller

In the school of success, information is the greatest asset. The more you read, the more you discover, the more you discover, the more you recover and the better your life become. — Stella Oladiran

We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional. — David Cone

She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart. — Elizabeth Von Arnim