Tlera Quotes & Sayings

Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center. — Gautama Buddha

Suppose a man is walking across a field. To the question "Who is that?" a Southerner would reply by saying something like "Wasn't his granddaddy the one whose dog and him got struck by lightning on the steel bridge? Mama's third cousin - dead before my time - found his railroad watch in that eight-pound catfish's stomach the next summer just above the dam. I think it was eight pounds. Big as Eunice's arm. The way he married for that new blue Cadillac automobile, reckon how come he's walking like he has on Sunday shoes, if that's who it is, and for sure it is." A Northerner would reply to the same question (only if directly asked, though, never volunteering), "That's Joe Smith." To which the Southerner might think (but be much too polite to say aloud), "They didn't ask his name, they asked who he is! — Mary Hood

I think that digital is offering many great possibilities for cinematographers. Particularly in urban cityscapes and low light photography its allowing us to render what we actually see with our eyes; which is interesting. — Seamus McGarvey

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task. — Richard Leakey

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful. — Ted Rall

Anyway. He plays the same old stuff every time. I'll have Charlie let him — Danielle Steel

I don't want to die. Please don't let me die. — Hugo Chavez

Stories don't end," he says. "They just turn into new beginnings." (pg. 123) — Lindsay Eagar

An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single chain into a second residue equivalent to the first is accordingly a rotation about an axis accompanied by translation along the axis. Hence the only configurations for a chain compatible with our postulate of equivalence of the residues are helical configurations. — Linus Pauling