Tordant Quotes & Sayings

one kept me informed on Dad's progress. Or lack of progress. Or how serious it all was - is. You certainly didn't, darling." Yet, was this true? Vaguely I seemed to know that my father was not doing well for some time. Driving on our country roads you see the carcasses of animals - raccoons, deer - lying at the roadside, killed — Joyce Carol Oates

Mr. Dowler, could you go through this? Mr. Algie. Don't answer him, Dowler; he's going beyond all bounds. Paul Ruttledge. I was a rich man and I could not, and yet I am something smaller than a camel, and this is something larger than a needle's eye. — W.B.Yeats

We both learn way more on our own than we do at school, and we're more interested in things we find for ourselves. — Michelle Falkoff

Simplicity, very rare in our age. — Ovid

We should abandon all hope when we are born. Happiness is a mere sparkle in the darkness. — Cristiane Serruya

I like Math because there's only one right answer. — Brendan Fehr

Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach ... — Charles Barkley

My own life is a fairy tale story - one that has already been written by the hands of God. — Tessa Emily Hall

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all. — Wallace Shawn

Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview. — Helen Reddy

They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does-when you can't get enough of it. — Anneli Rufus

I hardly think it wise to put the idea of flying into the heads of impressionable teenagers who are already battling the challenges of lunacy. — Julie Halpern

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs. — James Sinegal

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. — Ludwig Von Mises

Honestly, man, it's whatever she wants. She wants a ring, I'll by her one the size of her head. She wants a kid, I'll take her to bed every night until she has one, and I won't complain about it at all. If she wants to keep things the way they are now, until the end of time, then I'm cool with that, too. All that matters is that it's her and me at the end of the day. — Jay Crownover

- Qui vous a mis dans cette fichue position? - c'est le pigeon, Joseph. Patrice, home on furlough, lapped warm milk with me in the bar MacMahon. Son of the wild goose, Kevin Egan of Paris. My father's a bird, he lapped the sweet lait chaud with pink young tongue, plump bunny's face. Lap, lapin. He hopes to win in the gros lots. About the nature of women he read in Michelet. But he must send me La Vie de Jesus by M. Leo Taxil. Lent it to his friend. - C'est tordant, vous savez. Moi, je suis socialiste. Je ne crois pas en l'existence de Dieu. Faut pas le dire a mon p-re. - Il croit? - Mon pere, oui. — James Joyce