Torana Quotes & Sayings

I think the key to happiness is maximizing each day. So if you're unhappy, here's a simple prescription: Live harder. — Laird Hamilton

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him? — Oskar Schindler

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care. — John Mayer

I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. — Tim O'Brien

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. — Larry McMurtry

Create to be internally satisfied, not externally praised. — Phil Wohl

I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write ...
... writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely to turn and bite right to the bone ... and not even know that he's doing it. As writers' wives and husbands often learn to their horror ...
... there is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. In a household with more than one person, of which one is a writer, the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private, and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. Because, if you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. Or he may not hear you at all ... and, if you shake him at this stage, he bites ... — Robert A. Heinlein

My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it. — Sarah Shahi

In the mind there is no absolute or free will. — Baruch Spinoza

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden

Big is bad is a lie. It's quite possibly the worst lie of all, for if you fear big success, you'll either avoid it or sabotage your efforts to achieve it. — Gary Keller

The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog. — Jacob Grimm

Sometimes we don't have a choice in where we come from, but we can definitely choose where we go from there. — Faraaz Kazi

You can't put this possum in a cage — George Jones

For the most part, what we think of as 'I' is nothing more than a whole heap of conditioning. — Etienne De L'Amour