Tomsa Middletown Quotes & Sayings

After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place. Guys would come in, and they'd sort of stick out their arms like wings so I could take their coats off. They'd tell me, 'Two,' and I'd put two lumps of sugar in their coffee. — William T. Vollmann

People were mirrors turned inward to infinity, where all choices and roads not taken led to an endless shifting of self. — Ann Aguirre

Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat. — Bob Odenkirk

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought ... but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices. — Amy Dickinson

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. — Dorothy Thompson

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly. — James Russell Lowell

After all, I was only eighteen then. I'm almost twenty now. I learned lots about narrative structure in my Honors English classes so I know what I'm doing. — Daniel Handler