Timara Kennon Quotes & Sayings

Bucolic peace is not my ambience, and the giving of tea parties is by no means my favorite amusement. In fact, I would prefer to be pursued across the desert by a band of savage Dervishes brandishing spears and howling for my blood. I would rather be chased up a tree by a mad dog, or face a mummy risen from its grave. I would rather be threatened by knives, pistols, poisonous snakes, and the curse of a long-dead king. Lest I be accused of exaggeration, ... Emerson once remarked that if I should encounter a band of Dervishes, five minutes of my nagging would unquestionably inspire even the mildest of them to massacre me ... — Elizabeth Peters

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh. — Herman Melville

Mysteries are fine things, but the written word should be preserved, intact, and free of extraneous error. — Sandra Staas

The camp children descended upon me in a raucous, violent flurry of little bodies. I felt like tiny buffalo were stampeding over me. — Colleen Houck

On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs. — Eusebius

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter — Allen Ginsberg

Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time. — Barry Levinson

My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices. — Michel Gondry

I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy. — Andrew Sullivan