Thynne Tile Quotes & Sayings

The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently. — David Graeber

If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer. — Mark Victor Hansen

You're both growing and changing, and it's hard to grow and change at the same rate. — Jenny Han

So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that. — Jenny Han

[W]hen the modern mythmaker, the writer of literary fairy tales, dares to touch the old magic and try to make it work in new ways, it must be done with the surest of touches. It is, perhaps, a kind of artistic thievery, this stealing of old characters, settings, the accoutrements of magic. But then, in a sense, there is an element of theft in all art; even the most imaginative artist borrows and reconstructs the archetypes when delving into the human heart. That is not to say that using a familiar character from folklore in the hopes of shoring up a weak narrative will work. That makes little sense. Unless the image, character, or situation borrowed speaks to the author's condition, as cryptically and oracularly as a dream, folklore is best left untapped. — Jane Yolen

I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat. — Lawrence Block

I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it. — Paul Walker

All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back. — Gloria Steinem

I wake up every morning and have a pile of problems. — Sergey Galitsky

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works. — Roy Barnes

86,400 sec in a day, each one precious — Quotes That Inspire

The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. — Milan Kundera