Timeworn Toolbox Quotes & Sayings

The morning is a stealthy hunter, my father used to say. It sneaks up quiet and quick on the night and overtakes it. — Victoria Schwab

I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life
toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things
and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict. — Greer Garson

I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room — James Vance

Not all monsters do monstrous things. — Mackenzi Lee

Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is an unending process of self-discovery and creative evolution. Real success depends on being true to what fascinates you. — Paul O'Brien

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it. — Dan Barber

It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a few years ago. — Joseph Murray

You either bend, or you break.
Suppress your ego to stay happy. — Manoj Arora

On moonless nights in haunted hollow
The tongues of beasts, men's blood do swallow
Shape shifting shadows that soon will fade
Leaving lifeless husks in that mountain glade
Swift now close thy sleepy eyes
Hope that your dreams hold no surprise. — Neil Leckman

Life with out purpose is like a sailboat with out it's sail, with out one ... you'll get nowhere. — Timothy Pina

It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win. — Muhammad Ali

I'm youth, I'm joy!" Peter sang out. "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."
This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know at all who or what he was. This Hook though to be the best of good manners. — J.M. Barrie

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses. — Lionel Blue