Tetchiness Quotes & Sayings

I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that — Rick Yancey

When you're in front of a camera, it's not the words that count but the way they sound. It hardly matters what you say as long as you say it with a smile. — Marc Levy

All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath. — Sarah McLachlan

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. — Lucille Ball

I never take photographs myself. I don't feel like a photographer, more like a recycler — Christian Boltanski

I think of House as a deeply moral character, though some would no doubt argue with me. He does not judge. Beyond his normal tetchiness, there were no more than a half-dozen moments of actual condemnation from him. He understood lies and also why you lied, and there was an absolution there that is very, very appealing. — Hugh Laurie

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably. — Ezra Pound

I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years. — Ice-T

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content. — Nikki Giovanni

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future. — Howard Zinn

When war makes commerce and commerce is law, profit rules prudence and justice is flawed. — Christopher Moore

I've wanted to do this since I laid eyes on you." With a gentle movement, he lifted her face to his and kissed her.
Oh, blast. he's right. And I do want him. How annoying. — Liesel Schwarz

Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you. — Tim O'Brien

Dying is like a ship that sails away for another destination. — Courtney Cole

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. — Abraham Lincoln