Tollbooth Stock Quotes & Sayings

Learning ... is - also an end in itself. — Robert A. Heinlein

She thinks, I want an orange soda. And I want vodka to mix into the orange soda. And while we're at it, I'd also like to stop being able to see how people are going to bite it. Oh, and a pony. I definitely want a goddamn pony. — Chuck Wendig

If you are looking for a happy book about beautiful people, this is the wrong story. If you are looking for a narrative without emotion, without regrets, and without mistakes, this is definitely the wrong story. — R.K. Ryals

On every travel, we saw beautiful landscapes. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth. — Johann Arndt

I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it to New York and L.A., you have to be a professional. Of course, when you sell your book rights as an option for a movie, you have to be a professional about that. — Matthew Quick

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer. — Henry David Thoreau

I wondered, Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time? — Elizabeth Gilbert

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break. — Willie Aames

I'm not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I'm interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be aware of yourself at all. That's the way music works for me. It's purely emotional. It goes straight to the heart. There are no explanations. That's just it. — Karl Ove Knausgard

In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it rhymes with certain kinds of pop-music entertainers and eccentrics - both touted and tolerated. — David Grubbs

He hated heights and rats, and now he had both. — Toni Pike

Implacable man can inflict on one who has offended — Charlotte Bronte

I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats. — Jane Wagner

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you. — Barbra Streisand