Thierno Thioppi Quotes & Sayings

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written. — Robert Hass

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous. — James Boswell

Making a lie complicated... doesn't sound true.

(BackStrom Season 1 episode 7) — Deyth Banger

I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit? Years later, the dean of students at Harvard told me that my letter had been posted in the dean's office for the amusement of the staff. Thus did I learn the measure of institutional arrogance. — J. Michael Bishop

I always think 12 times before saying anything. — Brenda Blethyn

If you have thirty dollars and rent is eighty, there's no point in saving any of it. Drink till you're drunk and pay for a ride home. You might as well enjoy your trip to the bottom. It's when you've got eighty-seven dollars and the rent's eighty that you need to save. — Ryan David Jahn

I suppose he represented the worst of what rural life can do to a man: he was racist, uneducated, and badly in need of dental work. — Reif Larsen

If you want to live, if you want your friends and family to live, I expect you to do more than survive it," Mab said, sweeping out. "I expect you to skin them alive. — Jim Butcher

The word legend comes from the Latin "legere," which means "to read." The word fiction comes from the Latin "fingere," which means "to form." From fingere we also get the word fingers. We form things with our fingers. The word history comes from the Greek "istor," which means "to learn" or "to know." I believe in original etymology. I believe that fiction is formed truth. I believe that history is a way of knowing all of this. I believe that legend is how we read between the lines. — Nomi Eve

God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost. — Barbara Brown Taylor

If evolution simply means that a positive thing called an ape turned very slowly into a positive thing called a man, then it is stingless for the most orthodox; for a personal God might just as well do things slowly as quickly, especially if, like the Christian God, he were outside time. — G.K. Chesterton

It is necessary for the heart to feel as for the body to be fed. — Napoleon Bonaparte

My father was, I suppose, a crank. He had a fine, precise mind, which ignored what it was not interested in. — L.P. Hartley