Tortugas Quotes & Sayings

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments,
And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. — John Milton

Intelligent people, caught at anything, denied it. Faced with evidence of having denied it falsely, people said they had not done it and had not lied about it, and didn't remember it, but if they had done it, or lied about it, they would have done it and misspoken themselves about it in an interest so much higher as to alter the nature of doing and lying altogether. — Renata Adler

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together - man, you got it. — Colin Powell

But he needed to be certain before committing to something so - the word, certain, arrested his thoughts. A person can't be absolutely certain about anything, not certainty in the sense of a mathematical proof. He wasn't certain about Kate. He saw her, observed her, wanted to be with her. Somehow, he just knew. For reasons already set in his heart, the way he was wired, Josh knew Kate was a person he wanted in his life. She was the proof. Would it be the same way with God? — H.L. Wegley

What you do to kill time is your real work. — Marty Rubin

Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap. — Jerry Kramer

It's really important for children to have good morals and good manners, and that they're thoughtful of other people and that they learn the consequences of their actions. — Jerry Hall

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

He who says A must say B too; and he who consents the first time must also the second. — Jacob Grimm

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba. — Amy Tan

I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, and not be so self-centered in whatever my task is, which is being an actor. — Ray McKinnon