Tolkowsky Quotes & Sayings

Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in their enjoyments, and, consequently triffling in their value. Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves on the ruin of this Country. Let us convince every invader of our freedom, that we will be as free as the constitution our fathers recognized, will justify. — Samuel Adams

I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros. — Maria Sharapova

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. — Ambrose Bierce

The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton

The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled. — Jay Leno

Dance you guys!" Thalia ordered. "You look stupid just standing there."
I looked nervously at Annabeth, then at the groups of girls who were roaming the gym.
"Well?" Annabeth asked.
"Um, who should I ask?"
She punched me in the gut. "Me, Seaweed Brain."
"Oh. Oh right. — Rick Riordan

On Sundays, the pretending felt almost as natural as nature. The chapel was our favorite place. Long before we could understand what the priest was saying, the music instructed us in how to feel. — Karen Russell

Genius involves both envy and calumny. — Alexander Pope

When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities. — Jacques Audiard

As in cooking, living requires that you taste, taste, taste as you go along. — Kathleen Flinn

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects. — Riane Eisler