Tiegans Quotes & Sayings

This clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. — G.K. Chesterton

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball. — Bo Jackson

No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying. — Vash Young

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road. — Dolly Parton

Ras Tiegans fried everything, from grasshoppers to pickles to hunks of curried dog. — Kameron Hurley

I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living beings (the long neck of the giraffe, for example). I have therefore tried to see whether biological discoveries over the last thirty years or so fit in with Darwin's theory. I do not think that they do. To my mind, the theory does not stand up at all. — Henry Lipson

Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record. — Thomas Sowell

I love you, Emmy. You're mine. All of you. Your heart, mind and body. And I'm yours. — Kendall Ryan

I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me. — Lucille Clifton

Women don't find me as appealing as they do, say, that singer Justin Bieber. But I take comfort from the fact that Justin Bieber wouldn't know how to escape from a walk-in freezer after being chained there by a couple of huge guys in porkpie hats. He couldn't sing his way out of a spot like that; inevitably, he would be a Biebersicle. — Dean Koontz

only a small minority of military personnel have combat-related jobs. In 2015, even after two lengthy wars, the percentage of military personnel in combat specialties was only 14 percent overall - with substantial differences between the services: for instance, 28 percent of enlisted Army personnel serve in jobs that are classified as combat positions compared to just 3 percent of Navy enlisted personnel.
To be sure, many military personnel in noncombat positions end up in combat [zones] anyway. . . . But even when deployed in combat zones, most members of the military never end up fighting. — Rosa Brooks

I don't have a philosophy for choosing roles. Sometimes, it's just, 'This might be interesting; that might be fun to do.' There might be interesting actors or directors in the project, even if the part is not important. And then sometimes, you need the money. — Max Von Sydow