Tilting Skillet Quotes & Sayings

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. — Anais Nin

You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit
well, I have a thing about birds."
"What, a phobia?"
"Sort of."
"Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds."
"What do they call a rational fear of birds, then? — Neil Gaiman

His gaze turned cold as he faced her. 'Sure, she's attractive. A stone wall would be attractive if it looked like that. It's her attitude I don't like. There's more to love than just getting your itches scratched. — Stephen R. Donaldson

I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid. — George R R Martin

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away. — Ellis Peters

The democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing when in conflict with another man's right of property...
This is a world of compensations; and he would -be- no slave must consent to -have- no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
All honor to Jefferson - to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression. Your obedient Servant,
[Abraham Lincoln]
April 6, 1859, in a letter to MA State Rep Henry L. Pierce
Springfield, Ill. — Abraham Lincoln

One day you will meet someone who will show you what you are made of. I only hope it is someone not forbidden to you ... — Anne Rouen

Well, I believe that "thinking" is just as real a phenomenon in the world as anything else, and just as worthy of exploration. Maybe even more? So writing about "thought" to me is like writing about a tree or anything else real. — Matthew Zapruder

I'd never been a prison guard before or anything. — Lynndie England

I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record. — Chuck Inglish

What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes. — Natasha Josefowitz

Sawyer laughs and wraps a ginormous arm around my shoulder. "Gidge, dogs are all well and good, and it's true that men like them, but he'd rather have a kitty. Your kitty. — S.E. Hall

Do you get a percentage for every soul you corrupt or is this just how you get your kicks?" I enquired.
"Take it as a compliment. I only try to corrupt people I like. — Jane Cousins