Torchys Queso Quotes & Sayings

What about your beloved Epictetus? Or your beloved Emily Dickinson? You want your Emily, every time she has an urge to write a poem, to just sit down and say a prayer till her nasty, egotistical urge goes away? No, of course you don't! But you'd like your friend Professor Tupper's ego taken away from him. — J.D. Salinger

As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing. — Nathaniel Philbrick

[On Oscar Wilde:]
If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.
[Life Magazine, June 2, 1927] — Dorothy Parker

You must be a servant if you want to be great in life — Sunday Adelaja

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department. — John Hurt

Every girl deserves an Augustus Waters. — Allia Loops

An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance. — Johan Lindeberg

I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants. — Jim Cantalupo

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed. — Bernard Beckett

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors. — Gene Hackman