Tigertail Airboat Quotes & Sayings

'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat. — Claire Tomalin

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. — Scott Weiss

Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body. — Antonio Damasio

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. — William Gibbs McAdoo

That was the biggest fear. I'd rather clean up before I went on the road. It's bad enough cleaning up by yourself, but the idea of putting the whole tour on the line because I could'n make it was too much; even for me — Keith Richards

We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world — Simon Barnes

His eyes were dark. I knew that look. He was suddenly possessive of me, but I pretended not to notice. — J.L.Drake

I had injected more of myself than I had ever intended into our nonexistent relationship. Now I would have to relocate the bits and pieces of myself that I had lost, and put myself back together, like a waterlogged puzzle whose pieces didn't quite fit anymore. — Catherine Lowell

All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self. — Mark Victor Hansen

Democritus is studying philosophy here at Athens. This means that he delights in quarrels. — Gore Vidal

There are five of the State, and five of the soul, I said. What are they? The first, I said, is that which we have been describing, and which may be said to have two names, monarchy and aristocracy, accordingly as rule is exercised by one distinguished man or by many. True, he replied. But I regard the two names as describing one form only; for whether the government is in the hands of one or many, if the governors have been trained in the manner which we have supposed, the fundamental laws of the State will be maintained. — Plato

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration. — Oswald Chambers

Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much. — Tucker Max

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing. — Robert Barry

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go. — Jomo Kenyatta