Tethys Screen Quotes & Sayings

I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets. — Julie Harris

When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska. — Sarah Palin

There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins, and you become fatigued very soon. — Walter Russell

Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be. — Edward De Bono

In Tibet there were practitioners in retreat who so strongly reflected on impermanence that they would not wash their dishes after supper. - PALTRUL RINPOCHE'S SACRED WORD — Dalai Lama XIV

Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a few paces ahead. Occasionally the fog lifts, an eminence is gained, and a wider stretch of territory can be surveyed-sometimes with startling results. A whole science may then seem to undergo a kaleidoscopic rearrangement, fragments of knowledge sometimes being found to fit together in a hitherto unsuspected manner. Sometimes the shock of readjustment may spread to other sciences; sometimes it may divert the whole current of human thought. — James Jeans

She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English. — Alice Walker

Beginning in the 1980s, electronic trading detached the buyer from the seller, complex derivatives insulated the investor from the company, CDOs sequestered the lender from the borrower - in other words, the decade constructed a system that allowed us to rip each other off without fear of having to look at the ramifications of our actions. — David Sirota

Own it. Don't apologize for who you are. Own it. You can't win if you don't show up, right? — Penelope Douglas

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

you are ares' lost sister.
goddess of sedated battles and lost girls.
always full of other people and never yourself. — Salma Deera

He remembered the cold nights in their Arkansas cabin when he was a boy - how his mother piled quilts on top of him and his brothers, how peaceful it seemed under the quilts. Then it seemed like sleep was one of the most wonderful things in life. — Larry McMurtry