Tisherman Agency Quotes & Sayings

The girl in the red coat would remain the the sweet but sore point in my biography: the promise never kept; the mystery that would always remain a mystery. And yet, I regretted nothing. Someday it would be less painful. Someday my heart would be light again. I had to only let it happen. — Nicolas Barreau

Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow shines to cheer us; Ah! the sun comes never near us, And the heavens look dark and wile. — Mary Howitt

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. — Joseph Butler

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate. — Antonin Artaud

[The theory of universal gravitation] is not cast-iron. No theory is, and there is always room for improvement. Isn't that so? Science is constructed out of approximations that gradually approach the truth ... Well, that means all theories are subject to constant testing and modification, doesn't it? And if it eventually turns out that they're not quite close enough to the truth, they need to be replaced by something that's closer. Right? — Isaac Asimov

Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower. — Vivek Wadhwa

Once we meet our children, even for moments, in a place of "I don't know," of relinquished authority, we return to the realms of mystery and magic, where real connection becomes alive again. — Arjuna Ardagh

I've been dating a lot. I've met some very interesting people, and I've had some horrible blind dates. — Whitney Port

(Ayn Rand was the godmother of laissez faire capitalism, the Virgin Mary of Libertarianism. She died in 1982. She spent her life attempting to turn selfishness into a religion so that people could claim their greed was grounded in the nature of man. Her heinous ideas and crappy books have given politicians philosophical cover to promote their "greed is good" agenda for decades. — Ian Gurvitz

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. — Norman Mailer

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same. — Paulo Coelho

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie. — Robert Jordan