Triannual Quotes & Sayings

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain. — Edward Norton

Of course I'm not supposed to admit that there is triannual torrential sobbing in my office, because it's bad for the feminist cause. It makes it harder for women to be taken seriously in the workplace. It makes it harder for other working moms to justify their choice. But I have friends who stay home with their kids and they also have a triannual sob, so I think we should call it even. I think we should be kind to one another about it. I think we should agree to blame the children. — Tina Fey

Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit — Robert A. Heinlein

We always have a choice. — Tony Robbins

When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to be home — Paul Gruchow

What kind of work do you do," I asked.
"Promise you won't laugh?"
"Promise."
"I'm a proctologist."
I couldn't help it. I laughed a little. "An ass doctor? — Buffy Andrews

Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness. — Edward Gibbon

even though I'm safe. I see his ghostly reflection moving — Penny Wylder

The army is at once the worst place for egoists, and the best. — Anthony Powell

To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it. — Rick Wakeman

Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell? — Octavia E. Butler

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country. — Mary Mapes Dodge

Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things. — Julian Baggini

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

The music was linked with almost everything I had done, none of the records came without a memory. Everything that had happened in the last five years rose like steam from a cup when I played a record, not in the form of thoughts or reasoning, but as moods, openings, space. Some general, others specific. If my memories were stacked in a heap on the back of my life's trailer, music was the rope that held them together and kept it, my life, in position. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? — Henry Louis Gates