Tmesisternus Quotes & Sayings

There is no instinct like that of the heart. — George Gordon Byron

You know, one of the things that made me come here, was that I am frightfully afraid of being alone. The fear of the dark is only part of it. I wanted to break that fear in the middle, because I am afraid much of my existance is going to be more or less alone, and I might as well go into training for it. It comes on me at night mostly, in little waves of panic, that constrict something in my stomach. But don;t you think it is good to fight these things? Last night, some quite large animal came and sniffed under the door. I presume it was a coyote, though I do not know. The moon had not come up, and when I run outside there was nothing to be seen. But the main thing was that I was frightened, even though I knew it could be nothing but a coyote. Don't tell anyone I am afraid. I do not like to be suspected of being afraid. — John Steinbeck

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective. — Gloria Estefan

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise. — Joyce Carol Oates

I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet. — Brigham Young

Death
If he is a good man, death will be a release;
If he is a bad one, it will release others from him. — Idries Shah

Fuck, she was feisty. I wasn't a fan of attitude off a woman, but I couldn't deny my dick was hard as hell. I'd have to fuck that feisty out of her and I doubted she'd surrender easily, if at all. — Nina Levine

The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load. — Saadi

When we understand that we are a human race, what affects you affects me, what affects her affects you and so on and so on, then we'll look at this thing [HIV/AIDS] for what it really is. It's a disease that's out to kill all of us. What will make it continue is our prejudices, our ideas about it, and the fact that we don't look at ourselves as one giant community. — Queen Latifah

You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes. — Stephanie Zacharek