Therss Quotes & Sayings

It is an old truth that men and women sometimes miss what they hate as much as what they love. — Guy Gavriel Kay

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable. — George Orwell

In Monterey, at the small airport rental agency, he hired a vomit-green Ford Tempo. It was an offense to his refined sense of color. The Tempo's tempo was satisfyingly allegro on flat roads but a bit adagio on the hills. — Dean Koontz

Toasted Heretic should have been cherished and helped, rather than ignored or sneered at, or put down as "quirky band with an arrogant singer". So I certainly didn't help the band, but the virtues I had meant that we recorded albums when everyone else just listened to them. But, yes, if you could suffer from high self-esteem, then I certainly suffered. — Julian Gough

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on. — Melvil Dewey

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product. — Clay Shirky

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do. — Frederick Lenz

I write as a mode of penance for the arrogance inherent in my despair. — Charles McLeod

I'm an easy person to get along with. Even when I struggle, I have the same attitude. — David Ortiz

I've challenged Cain Velasquez to a fight three times. He's a little boy who doesn't want to fight. He said no, live on TV. — Tyson Fury

SERIOUSLY? Is it because of Jesus? Are you, like, saving yourself for him?" Sex seemed simpler for Kelsey. She had the body of a Barbie and the sexually-charged brain of a teenage boy.
"No, Kelsey," I said. "It would be a little difficult to save myself for someone who died over two thousand years ago. — Cora Carmack

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job. — Michael Stuhlbarg

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world. — Donald Ray Pollock