Tessas Quotes & Sayings

Pyle could see pain when it was in front of his eyes. (I don't write that as a sneer; there are so many of us who can't) — Graham Greene

The Roman Empire invented snacks, right after the aqueducts. Irrigation flowed, food plentiful, people munching between meals in the city-states. They ate these little, sun-dried meaty things, highly distasteful and falling out of favor until olive oil. I just made all that up. The key to life is making shit up. Everyone does it or society would unravel, like, Gee, your hair looks great! Or: God told me you're wrong — Tim Dorsey

This is something that I'm sure I'd have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There's the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven't embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they're going to hell. — Barack Obama

The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years. — Barry Ritholtz

I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea. — Pablo Neruda

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

A knight ending is really a pawn ending. — Mikhail Botvinnik

Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things. — Ruth Ozeki

Ebola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there ... it can make it anywhere!' — Bill Maher

Facts are God's native tongue. — Michael Dowd

Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like. — Cassandra Clare

A minute or so passed by--not long, but long enough to make me wonder whether Oliver was setting up mood lighting or hiding dead bodies. Or if someone was up there waiting to stab me again. Or if someone was up there waiting to hand me a crown and tell me I was the long-lost princess of Genovia. Or if I'd tumble into a pit of lava, only to get saved at the last second by a flying carpet. — Lindsay Ribar

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of. — Edwidge Danticat