Trillat Retractor Quotes & Sayings

Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to have a peculiarly intellectual sanction. Our preference, even as articulated by those who are most mild in their persons, is increasingly for the absolute and extreme, of which we feel violence to be the true sign. The gentlest of us will know that the tigers of wrath are to be preferred to the horses of instruction and will consider it intellectual cowardice to take into account what happens to those who ride tigers. — Lionel Trilling

When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened. — Mason Cooley

The thing about the basics is they don't really change - it's the details and the proportions that change. The shirt may be cut slimmer or looser, the suit might be darker or lighter, the sneakers might not have laces, but you're still talking about shirts and suits and sneakers. — John Varvatos

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating. — Ahmet Zappa

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. — William James

My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit. — Mason Cooley

I don't think I thought I was going to go into music, and I don't think it hit me until I was 13 or 14, and then I was gone. Just like that. At that point, there was nothing else that could keep my attention. — Shooter Jennings

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her. — Cesare Pavese

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands. — Richard Thompson