Timkin Quotes & Sayings

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial. — Tom Stoppard

Yeah, I'm sure he'll have me over for lushberry juice and mallowmelt," Sophie mumbled. "Right after he tells me to call him Uncle Timkin. — Shannon Messenger

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other. — William Howard Taft

since I am sort of afraid to talk — Matthew Quick

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big. — Scotty Bowman

Britain's fashion industry employs more people and makes more money than do its car or steel industries. — John Howkins

Jelly beans! Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and raspberry and mint and round and smooth and crunchy outside and soft-mealy inside and sugary and bouncing jouncing tumbling clittering clattering skittering fell on the heads and shoulders and hardhats and carapaces of the Timkin works, tinkling on the slidewalk and bouncing away and rolling about underfoot and filling the sky on their way down with all the colors of joy and childhood and holidays, coming down in a steady rain, a solid wash, a torrent of color and sweetness out of the sky from above, and entering a universe of sanity and metronomic order with quite-mad coocoo newness. Jelly beans! — Harlan Ellison