Tiganopita Quotes & Sayings

When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff. — Jerry Lewis

If a girl is pretty she will be tempted. — Lillian Russell

The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain. — Wallace D. Wattles

My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died, said Riddle — J.K. Rowling

There is an old Yiddish phrase I find apropos - but not by choice: "Man plans, God laughs." I am a prime example. My life was pretty much laid out for me. I was a basketball star my entire childhood, destined to be an NBA player for the Boston Celtics. But in my very first preseason game, Big Burt Wesson slammed into me and ruined my knee. I tried gamely to come back, but there is a big difference between gamely and effectively. My career was over before I hit the parquet floor. I — Harlan Coben

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike. — Paulo Coelho

I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to the beguiling moon. I've never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I've never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. I've never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things I've never done, but oh, how I've been loved. And, if such things were to be, I'd live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially. — Lori Lansens

You bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation. — Kingsley Amis

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California. — Joss Whedon

I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up. — Mackenzie Davis

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him. — Ann Brashares

He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things. — David Levithan

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters. — Samuel Johnson

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. — Stephen Spender