Thurnauer 8 Quotes & Sayings

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else. — James Burrows

Giving up all pretense of obeying natural laws again, I see," he said. "Natural laws?" Syl said, finding the concept amusing. "Laws are of men, Kaladin. Nature doesn't have them!" "If I toss something upward, it comes back down." "Except when it doesn't." "It's a law." "No," Syl said, looking upward. "It's more like . . . more like an agreement among friends." He looked at her, raising an eyebrow. "We have to be consistent," she said, leaning in conspiratorially. "Or we'll break your brains. — Brandon Sanderson

Liv."
I looked at him.
"Don't hide," North said.
"I'm not."
"You remember I told you once you were like a turtle?" North asked.
"Yes."
"I don't think turtles have very interesting lives."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It's okay to have a hard shell," North said. "Not okay to hide in it when you're so young. — Nina Lane

What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up. — Richelle E. Goodrich

[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's side]
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man - a man of restless and versatile intellect - who ... plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice. — Thomas Henry Huxley

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame. — William C. Bryant