Tkarn Quotes & Sayings

These are the folks who brought us the hydrogen bomb. Forgive me, Lord, for not being more grateful to these kind souls — Carl Sagan

When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified. — Walt Disney

Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework. — Yoko Ono

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh. — Gilbert Highet

But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!" — Florence Earle Coates

Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life. — Emily Gould

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing. — Truman Capote

And sometimes time really does stop. — Cynthia Hand

Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time. — William Wordsworth

The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case. — H.L. Mencken

I'm just happy to be sitting right here in Chicago and right here at U.S. Cellular Field, holding my Hall of Fame press conference. I'm proud of that. — Frank Thomas

We're good at addressing specific, individual problems: colon cancer, high blood pressure, arthritic knees. Give us a disease, and we can do something about it. But give us an elderly woman with high blood pressure, arthritic knees, and various other ailments besides - an elderly woman at risk of losing the life she enjoys - and we hardly know what to do and often only make matters worse. — Atul Gawande