Timms Quotes & Sayings

Where power beckoned the strongest of men to come and lay hold to its glory, there would always be greed and war. — Lexy Timms

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog") — Stephen Crane

And I learned that sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn't a need for a response. The words said it all. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. — Judith Butler

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

TIMMS: I don't see how we can understand it. Most of the stuff poetry's about hasn't happened to us yet.
HECTOR: But it will, Timms. It will. And then you will have the antidote ready! Grief. Happiness. Even when you're dying. We're making your deathbeds here, boys.
LOCKWOOD: Fucking Ada.
HECTOR: Poetry is the trailer! Forthcoming attractions! — Alan Bennett

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. — Taylor Caldwell

Most of us aren't very graceful about not having our needs met, when and how we want them met. — Michael Ventura

I was, being human, born alone;
I am, being woman, hard beset;
I live by squeezing from a stone
The little nourishment I get. — Elinor Wylie

I don't always understand poetry!'
'You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it ... whenever. — Alan Bennett

Places change you, Miss Timms, and deserts change us pale northerners so much, our own mothers wouldn't recognize us. — David Mitchell

Our vision of the heavenly realm ... can sustain us through the most difficult of days and circumstances. It births hope amidst hardship and nurtures faith amidst opposition. — David Timms

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of. — Patti Smith

There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints of government. Such persons will imagine that there is no need of a common directing power. This is one of those wild speculative paradoxes, which have grown into credit among us, contrary to the uniform practice and sense of the most enlightened nations. — Alexander Hamilton

Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes. — Carl Sandburg

He lived in the rich city as alien as a rat in a rich man's house that is fed on scraps thrown away, and hides here and there and is never a part of the real life of the house. — Pearl S. Buck

The facility of the entrance into another world is an illusion: you start writing in a rush, anticipating the happiness of a future reading, and the void yawns on the white page. — Italo Calvino

It takes awhile for writers to get to know actors rhythms, not just as actors, but what they bring to the characters. I think it takes a few episodes for the writing room to catch up to the actors and vice versa. — Logan Marshall-Green