Tinkertoys Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant. — Ethan Hawke

There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later. — Jane Lindskold

Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose. — George Kaiser

Do yourself a favor - wait for someone special. Trust me, he's not roaming the halls of your high school. And if he were, he wouldn't be sleeping with some girl named Tracy, or Stacy, or anybody else. He'd only have eyes for you. Don't give away something you can never get back, save it for someone you love and who really loves you, too. — Addison Moore

It's a small-town rule: Never speak ill of the dead until the estate has paid the outstanding bills. — Leslie Meier

Father says we are all Defects, in our way. Humans and clones. He says the word is really just a scare tactic to incite disobedient beings into subservience. He says that's all it really is - just a word. — Rachel Cohn

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour. — Phil Collins

Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made? — Bruce Robinson

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns. — Richard Roeper

Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail. — Charles Bukowski

System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy. — George Washington

Heaven and earth are my inner and outer coffins. The sun, moon, and stars are my drapery, and the whole creation my funeral procession. What more do I want? — Huston Smith

Babylonian scientists used a counting system based on the number sixty, which is why minutes have sixty seconds. — David S. Kidder

All we have of freedom
All we use or know
This our fathers bought for us
Long and long ago — Rudyard Kipling

In the parlance of economics, Julien has said to Pari that if she cut off the supply of attention, perhaps the demands for it would cease as well. — Khaled Hosseini