Tewinkle Home Quotes & Sayings

People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days. — Julie Burchill

A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not begin his travels at home? Would he have to go far or look very closely to discover novelties? The traveler who, in this sense, pursues his travels at home, has the advantage at any rate of a long residence in the country to make his observations correct and profitable. Now the American goes to England, while the Englishman comes to America, in order to describe the country. — Henry David Thoreau

Apparently, the glasses didn't need to be connected to the internet for the wearer to poke into someone's personal life. Even though a search engine could lead to an individual's address, the browser couldn't actually physically take you there. What had this inventor done? Did he have any idea? — Chess Desalls

A veteran reporter knows there is a disconnect between how an event in a region is experienced and the way it is perceived in distant capitals. He sends dispatches about violent insurrections, riots and clashes, and feels his words loom large in his mind, then become small, minuscule, in the sending,until eventually he discovers that none of his reporting produces more than a twinge or yawn in the wider world. — Kyo Maclear

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. — Miguel De Cervantes

It was the smell of home. Home isn't always a good place to be. — Mira Grant

No man can be a conservative unless he has something to lose. — James Warburg

My parents think I'm better under pressure. — Tori Amos

Who would have thought that a human and a dragon could make such a perfect match? — E.D. Baker

I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans. — Peter Berg

Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts? — William Gurnall

More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad. — Kurtwood Smith

The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn't given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My newspaper job ... is my identity. — Roger Ebert