The Tommyknockers Quotes & Sayings

The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power. — Christiane Northrup

We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given. — Midge Decter

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic ... could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot. — Steven Weinberg

Who says we don't want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with us wanting to be inspired? Everyone acts like it's some crazy idea, some outrageous ungrantable request. Don't we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning? — Dave Eggers

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter. — Tom Robbins

Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man. — Stephen King

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash. — Harry Markowitz

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action. — Elia Kazan

The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In a hurry. — Stephen King