Tornik Quotes & Sayings

You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality. — Fred Brooks

There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary person sees only who you are; for that you don't need a friend. Then there's a friend who sees in you what you can be. And then there's the real holy Friend, and the presence of this Friend you are already. — Shlomo Carlebach

First rule of a good shrink is probably to pay attention to the whining. — Gayle Friesen

I want what Claire has with Jessie. — Georgia Cates

If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it. — Linda Sue Park

Confucius taught this when he said, "The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior man, what is profitable. — Bohdi Sanders

Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on. — David Levithan

If only he could convince her, his dream would be within reach — Anamika Mishra

It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love. — Evalyn Walsh McLean

He disappeared into the century-old house, returning with three beers and a plate of what appeared to be bacon-chip cookies. Given the choice, I grabbed one of the bottles and leaned against the railing, waiting impatiently as Jeff and Helen filled us in on the latest werewolf gossip, most of which centered around who was sneaking into bed - or into the woods, or the backseat, or in one case the middle of the gas station parking lot - with whom. Werewolves treated sex like a professional sporting event, occasionally with spectators and cheerleaders. — Jim C. Hines

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience. — Alan Bennett