Thripsey Quotes & Sayings

Parents are strange and wonderful creatures. When you're small they seem bright, shiny, and invincible. As you grow, that image starts to fade. It's a sobering moment, but the time will come when you realize they are not the heroes you imagined. They are just people struggling to do the best they can, just the same as you are.You will feel let down, betrayed, even ashamed. This is the time, ... when you need to forgive your parents for being human. — Camron Wright

If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. — Andy Rooney

Don't be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful. — Robert Noyce

If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I
was nothing until you. — Judith McNaught

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre. — Andrzej Wajda

Character is not made in a crisis- it is only exhibited — Robert Freedman

Your condition is NOT your conclusion. — Dale C. Bronner

Within and about the Forest of Tantrevalles existed a hundred or more fairy shees, each the castle of a fairy tribe. Thripsey Shee on Madling Meadow, little more than a mile within the precincts of the forest, was ruled by King Throbius and his spouse Queen Bossum. His realm included Madling Meadow and as much of the forest surrounding as was consistent with his dignity. The fairies at Thripsey numbered eighty-six. — Jack Vance

I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

But I hate socks.' I do, especially sleeping in them. They always come half-off in the middle of the night, and why? What kind of inferior clothing item falls off of you when you're lying still? — Francesca Serritella

There are a lot of difficult situations that lead to awkwardness. — Jemaine Clement

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. — Paul Valery

If you see long term profit then say welcome otherwise Goodbye. — AbdulNasir

As for the possibility of 'having it all,' career and family with no sacrifice to either, that is a myth we would do well to abandon, together with the pernicious notion that a woman who chooses one of the other is somehow deficient. — Sonia Sotomayor

God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed. — Swami Vivekananda

Death is the word that kills all the words. (La mort est un mot - Qui tue tous les mots) — Charles De Leusse