Tipenall Quotes & Sayings

I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime. — Vonda Shepard

Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can. — Jennifer Egan

Do you think my Cyn would like a souvenir?" he asked Duncan.
Duncan leaned sideways to study the dripping organ.
"probably not, My lord. — D.B. Reynolds

Duncan's temper kindled, but it didn't dampen the lust seeping along his nerve endings. He could flatten this persnickety witch, or better yet, weave a love spell and bind her to him. Maybe he'd do just that and have done with things. He clasped his hands behind his back to quash the temptation to summon magic. — Ann Gimpel

When God shook Israel awake from her violent slumber, He said, "Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy" (Ezekiel 16:49, emphasis added). — Jen Hatmaker

I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me — Jay-Z

Once you have a dream you've got somewhere closer to a reality. — Terry Pratchett

So whether you're participating in an online conversation or reading a book by yourself, your experience is a readerly one and a responsive one. The most significant difference is that reading a book is dialogically asymmetrical: you learn about the book, about its characters and perhaps its author, but none of them learns anything about you. I'm not convinced that this is necessarily regrettable: many of us should probably spend more time just listening, rather than insisting on being heard. — Alan Jacobs

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it. — Lupita Nyong'o

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one. — C.S. Lewis

One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace. — Yoshida Shoin

There are raw materials undeveloped burning inside you but need a platform to materialize and manifest. — Ikechukwu Joseph

Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies. — Lord Chesterfield

Jack Thorne writes so well for messed-up teenage girls. — Holliday Grainger