Toltandwool Quotes & Sayings

I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to organize experience, to tell tales that dramatize the adventures which readers might have had. I have been that ancient man who sat by the campfire at night and regaled the hunters with imaginative recitations about their prowess. The job of an apple tree is to bear apples. The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation. — James A. Michener

Human working memory is able to hold no more than some four or five chunks of information at any given time. — Nick Bostrom

neighborhood, the place I left each — Christina Baker Kline

I know Pentatonix. I knew them before they were even a group. — Tori Kelly

Nothing happens til something moves. — Albert Einstein

If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money. — Peter Singer

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane. — Marilyn Monroe

Mac has a sexy breakfast story." "Really?" Eyebrows lifted, Parker set the syrup and butter on the table of the breakfast nook. "Tell all." "It began, and sexy tales often do, when I spilled Diet Coke on my shirt. — Nora Roberts

When a country goes to war, it acts like a sociopath. It sends people like me out in the woods to do the most evil things we can think of, but everybody else pretends like they're on the side of the angels. The reality is, if the angels want to win, it takes the devil to succeed. — Jon Roberts

There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you will probably view it with suspicion, as I once did. It's this: educating girls works. Really works. — Richard E. Robbins