Tristor Quotes & Sayings

I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what you call someone when you're worried that using a long word like 'intellectual' may have too many syllables. It's not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people. — Neil Gaiman

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off. — Zong Qinghou

Words, words. They mean nothing, less than nothing. I know. — Anna Quindlen

Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to create it. That was what made the modern morality, with its emphasis on individuals and the working out of an individual position, so weak. If you gave people the chance to work out their morality, then they would work out the version which was easiest for them and which allowed them to do what suited them for as much of the time as possible. That, in Mma Ramotswe's view, was simple selfishness, whatever grand name one gave to it. — Alexander McCall Smith

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day. — Nancy Gibbs

I know what we do really well - I just try and keep us focused on doing that. — Jeffrey Katzenberg

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. — Alfred Newman