Tomkin Quotes & Sayings

A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose ... In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. — Anna Brackett

A real diamond is never perfect. — Anthony Doerr

I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites. — Drew Carey

I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power. — Mark Neumann

The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now — L. Ron Hubbard

Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves. — Karan Bajaj

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race. — William Faulkner

Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess — Leo Tolstoy

No one should discriminate. — Rob Portman

For each of us, he understood, is born into our own time and eventually the things we held as the center of our world, dearly, unforgivingly, must fade. — Lan Samantha Chang