Tienshan Quotes & Sayings

I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great — Khaled Hosseini

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived. — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I'm using are fairly ordinary words, the concepts around which they cluster, which are the long concepts of literary tradition, may not be familiar to an audience. — Helen Vendler

If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let
him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or
an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? — Henry David Thoreau

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success. — Mike Peters

They're talking as if nothing's happened, Soledad said to herself, and the jealousy ran from her ears into her heart, where it settled into her aorta and reshaped itself as longing and desire, the kind of want that makes one capable of poor but magnanimous decisions. — Derek Palacio

Father, make me a blessing to someone today, through Christ our Lord. Amen. — Jan Karon

He who would remain honest ought to keep away want. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Megan was still in shock as Steve helped her out of the vehicle. — John Triptych

I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way. — Mark Ronson

My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself. — Tracy Morgan