Torpify Quotes & Sayings

People always want you to look pretty. I would like to live in the Midwest in a small town and never put makeup on. But they won't let you do that. Once I went through a period when I did do that, wore no makeup, wore my hair any which way, and people looked at me like I was a bum. — Catherine Hicks

Christianity must mean everything to us before it can mean anything to others. — Donald Soper, Baron Soper

Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it. — Gina Greenlee

Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt like the sun was shining from his heart. - from the novel Brainjob by David Sloma. — David Sloma

I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now. — Forest Whitaker

Love may not be quid pro quo but marriage certainly is. — Shahla Khan

I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers ... — David Foster Wallace

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? — Gregory Bateson

Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry. — George Ade

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived. — Charles Caleb Colton

That was the trouble with the clans; they had an absurd notion that every man's voice should be heard in council, so they argued about EVERYTHING, endlessly. — George R R Martin