Tjiong Quotes & Sayings

We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil and its derivatives, because it's not going to be around forever. — Margaret Atwood

You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering. — Doris Lessing

I got it made the rest of my life, financially and in every other way. There's nobody in the world like me. I'm getting out just in time. If I was twenty seven, I could still kick ass. I don't have to beat Holmes. Why? I raised him, he worked three years as a sparring partner for me. — Muhammad Ali

Well." Eli cleared his throat. He didn't have to talk to Tyler about the ways and means of sex.
Thank Christ. He'd done that deed years before. His grandson was a grown man, who knew about the
birds and bees, and about responsibility. But ...
"Holy hell, Ty. You and Sophie."
"It just happened," he said again. "I guess it shouldn't have, and I guess I should tell you it won't
happen again. — Nora Roberts

Oh-h, I see. So are you saying that the Second Amendment is every bit as important as the first? But a lot of people say it's not an individual right, that it's not even needed anymore. The crime rate is way down you know." "The Second Amendment will always be needed, if for no other reason than to protect your right to publish free of government censorship. The Second Amendment is the one right that protects all others. It's about accountability. An armed society is all that holds the government accountable to the people who elected them. All people are inherently flawed. We are predisposed toward selfishness and vain ambition. — Skip Coryell

I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that. — Kate Beckinsale

When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before. — Lynn A. Robinson

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. — Dave Barry

A thing worth learning is worth learning well. — Patrick Ness

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they are for the middle class while raising them on the wealthiest Americans. — Kevin O'Leary

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. — Catie Curtis

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't think I'm alone - genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things. — Robin Wasserman