Townfolk Quotes & Sayings

Princess Anlei to the newly knighted Lord Knight Corann: A princess does not need to rush into the fray like some ... starving creature, but moves deliberately, with a purpose. I did not think for a moment that this gathering would end without you speaking to me at some point. — Laurel A. Rockefeller

I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently. — Ishmael Reed

I thought if you told people facts, they'd draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people. — James S.A. Corey

Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat. — Timothy Leary

What's hard in movies is to have a consistent tone throughout a movie. Whatever that is. — Steve Zahn

Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art! — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk. — Jeffrey Zeldman

This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though. — L. Frank Baum

Find peace within your soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's amazing that about 10% of startups couldn't be found on Facebook because they had common names or names that weren't searchable. — Robert Scoble

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong. — Robert Henri

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once — Lillian Dickson

It's a little awkward to know that the world is going to see you and your mom argue about stupid things and watch me get grounded ... again. — Cheyenne Kimball

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

When I was younger, I remember there was a really famous book, and it was called 'The People Could Fly.' And so this idea of, kind of like, black characters kind of jumping into space and kind of the challenge that they presented to gravity I thought was really interesting. — Rashid Johnson