Tiupan Quotes & Sayings

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old. — Clyde Tombaugh

To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it. — John Avery

Let others emulate the eagle's flight, Life in the lowly plains may be as bright. — Henrik Ibsen

WHEN I finally slowed and looked around, I saw with amazement I'd trotted sixteen blocks in about three minutes. Summer Olympics, here I come. Assuming they held the races at night. — MaryJanice Davidson

Solitude is an inevitable circumstance. — Haruki Murakami

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight. — Lisa Gardner

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality — Kedar Joshi

You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always a chance you'll want to use it later. — Barbara Kingsolver

Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in. — Frederick Lenz

To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant. — Heinrich Rohrer

Mycroft Holmes: ... a necessary evil, not a dragon for you to slay.
Sherlock Holmes: A dragon slayer? Is that what you think of me?
Mycroft: No ... It's what you think of yourself.
Mrs. Holmes/Mum: Are you two smoking?
Mycroft: No-
Sherlock: It was Mycroft!
(They hide their lighted cigarettes behind their backs.) -Sherlock, "His Last Vow", season/series 3 — Steven Moffat