Terreaux Lyon Quotes & Sayings

Mistakes are only horses in disguise
Ain't no need to ride 'em over
'cause we could not ride them different if we tried — Larry Mahan

The lawbreaking itch is not always an anarchic one. In the first place, the human personality has (or ought to have) a natural resistance to coercion. We don't like to be pushed and shoved, even if it's in a direction we might choose to go. In the second place, the human personality has (or ought to have) a natural sense of the preposterous. Thus, just behind my apartment building in Washington there is an official sign saying, Drug-Free Zone. I think this comic inscription may be done because it's close to a schoolyard. And a few years back, one of our suburbs announced by a municipal ordinance that it was a "nuclear-free zone." I don't wish to break the first law, though if I did wish to do so it would take me, or any other local resident, no more than one phone call and a ten-minute wait. I did, at least for a while, pine to break the "nuclear-free" regulation, on grounds of absurdity alone, but eventually decided that it would be too much trouble. — Christopher Hitchens

A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss. — Chrissie Hynde

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us. — Anne Lamott

Larger than life ... I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life? — Nicole Krauss

The light in your soul is far greater than the darkness. Shine your light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. — Arthur C. Clarke

I have a lot of books I want to write. — Douglas Brinkley

Wrestlers in the U.S.A. are very aggressive. All they want to do is attack, but they'll make mistakes. — Kurt Angle

My first policy move would be to try to get a conversation going in the US about what people stand for and what we really want. Do we want to keep adding people to the world and to our country until we move to a battery-chicken kind of existence and then collapse? Or do we want to think hard about what really is valuable to us, and figure out how many people we can supply that to sustainably? — Paul R. Ehrlich

To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves. — Zelda La Grange