Tinas Quotes & Sayings

He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support. — Mary Renault

So, why do you write these strong female characters?
Because you're still asking me that question.
[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006] — Joss Whedon

Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time. — Robert Heller

Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day. — Johnny Carson

As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort. — Rachel Weisz

Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity. — Trevor Baylis

It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me. — Andrea Bocelli

For 'The Journal of Finn Reardon,' I traveled to New York City and walked the streets where Finn and his friends would have lived, worked, and played. I visited the Tenement Museum on Orchard Street and toured an actual flat in which families like Finn's might have lived. — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving. — John Ruskin

These bloody heels, she said. She told me she always changed her shoes if she felt low. It is the noise you make in the world that is the key to happiness, she said. — Rachel Joyce

I allow myself to get firmly sucked in. I love that! I come from that. — Dan Trachtenberg

Man without dreams is a boat in a frozen lake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution. — Haruki Murakami

I do not want to study alchemy, Lord Carlston," she hissed. "It is heretical nonsense. Nor do I want to fight. All you have shown me is a world of danger and threat, and yet you expect to step into it without even asking me if I wish to do so.".........."I am no warrior, sir, nor do I aspire to be. I have been taught to sew and sing and dance, and my duty is to marry, not fight demons. Look at me: I am an Earl's daughter, not a man versed in swords and fisticuffs. — Alison Goodman