Tessian Quotes & Sayings

Yes, in the feverish dance of dust, she thinks, there is surely a speck of Zachariah. Even in his absence, in so many ways, he is so very much here. — Emma Richler

Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money. — John Fowles

The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history. — Eckhart Tolle

North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks. — Paul Watson

The flowers' beauty drew her closer to them like a magnetic force. She felt compelled to walk a little faster. — H. L. Balcomb

I'm very excited about is that my son Scott is a director and he just finished his first picture. It's called "Lucky 13", it's a low budget picture, it stars Jeremy Dillon, Daryl Hannah and Jami Gertz. — Garry Marshall

All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [ ... ] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether. — Frederick Buechner

a competition is meant to be won. — M.C. Mary Kom

He was going to trust her to be his if she could prove to him that she was his, that she wanted to be his, completely. — Pepper Winters

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. — Thomas Jefferson

Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. — Jan Pinkava Ratatouille

A writer writes what interests him and what he can manage, and what he can make live, as Flannery O'Connor said. So my reaction to someone saying "You must!" or "You should!" or even "Hey, why don't you?" is basically to sort of shrug and politely walk off and do whatever I want to do. It's nobody else's business, really, and even if I happened to agree with one of those "musts" or "shoulds" what would I do about it, if my heart wasn't in it? — George Saunders

Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark."
"Nat Parson's a gobshite."
Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite. — Joanne Harris

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. — Manuel Puig