Tismal Quotes & Sayings

It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose. — Christine Feehan

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person. — Jon Favreau

That night she sat for hours, too numb to even drink, teaching herself to breathe in a vaccum. For this, oh God, was the void. — Thomas Pynchon

We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place. — David Agus

Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.' — Terence McKenna

The main premise of appreciative inquiry is that positive questions, focusing on strengths and assets, tend to yield more effective results than negative questions focusing on problems or deficits. — Warren Berger

Although it does help if your intelligence force is also intelligent. — John Flanagan

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing. — Jessye Norman

Humans can actually read a landscape, go through a lot of rocks - crack them open, throw them, pick up the next one. Rovers are great - they do amazing science - but it is a lot more tedious process; they go much less far than a human can cover in a day. — Ellen Stofan

When god lets my body be
From each brave eye shall sprout a tree
fruit that dangles therefrom
the purpled world will dance upon
Between my lips which did sing
a rose shall beget the spring
that maidens whom passion wastes
will lay between their little breasts
My strong fingers beneath the snow
Into strenuous birds shall go
my love walking in the grass
their wings will touch with her face
and all the while shall my heart be
With the bulge and nuzzle of the sea — E. E. Cummings

I believe it could very well be unconstitutional to ban people. We are a country of immigrants, but we have to know who's coming in. They need to come in legally. And we need to be sure that we have been able to have them satisfy the criteria that we set for them to come into our country. — Jan Brewer

Part of growing up is narrowing your life choices to a manageable size. — Amy E. Spiegel

I feel like making the mistakes I always wanted to make, but never had the courage to ... I can make new friends and teach them how to be crazy too in order to be wise. I'll tell them not to follow the manuals of good behaviour but to discover their own lives, desires, adventures and to live — Paulo Coelho