Tetma Quotes & Sayings

Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there. — Newt Gingrich

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. — Rebecca West

I'm a vegetarian, and I long for people to eat less meat, but the thing to do is not to go, 'Eat! Less! Meat!' It's to say, 'I am fit as a flea and I'm 63, I haven't eaten meat for 40 years, and I never get diseases, I'm never ill, and I'm full of energy. So how's about that?' — Joanna Lumley

There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down. — Anne Roiphe

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts. — Naguib Mahfouz

With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.' — Gustavo Santaolalla

We reviewed our process at Greylock and discovered that the best investments are non-obvious enough that they result in a mixed vote by our partnership. — David Sze

Action and becoming are one. — Meister Eckhart

Being without my dear one made my heart ache like it had been pierced with thousands of daggers that had been placed in ice and covered in salt. — Jillian Kleine Der Lowe

Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer. — Molly Elliot Seawell

But since anagram-related clues are now inadmissible as evidence, we sent the pork pie off for DNA analysis and managed to pinpoint the pie shop where it was purchased. — Jasper Fforde

One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made. — Carol W. Greider