Trommelstokvingers Quotes & Sayings

Imagination shrinks from the consequences. — Jude Morgan

Necessary policemen, firemen, street cleaners, health officers, judges, legislators and executives perform productive services as important as those of anyone in private industry. They make it possible for private industry to function in an atmosphere of law, order, freedom and peace. But their justification consists in the utility of their services. It does not consist in the "purchasing power" they possess by virtue of being on the public payroll. — Henry Hazlitt

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste. — Ngaio Marsh

Maybe the answer is: Don't be an asshole, think before you open your trap, take responsibility for your words. Meaning, apologize when you're wrong and correct yourself moving forward - and don't constantly look for reasons to be offended and police well-meaning people's words. We want folks to talk to each other, right? Not just hang out with like-minded people all the time. Everyone is ignorant about something, and everyone is offended by something. If people can't have a calm, respectful dialogue without being hurt by ignorance, or without offending with insensitivity, then what the hell are we supposed to do? Surround ourselves with robots who don't challenge our ideas?" I — Penny Reid

You know, I believe that people need to find what they love to do most in the world, what they're best at, and then they need to use that ability to make the world better. — Jessica Warman

We're meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from
the truth. That's what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.
-Jace Wayland — Cassandra Clare

After I heard that I had had a heart attack, how I lived in my body changed, and my doctor should have found a way to let me know he recognized that. — Arthur W. Frank

The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it. — Paul Simon

It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33 - but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all. — H.P. Lovecraft

If we understood ourselves better we would damage ourselves less. — James Baldwin

The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money. — Walter Wriston

Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods. — B. Joseph Pine II

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. — Frank Zappa

He winks at me, and the surge of butterflies in my stomach is so strong I think I may throw up right there. I need something to calm my nerves. The most obvious remedy is more alcohol. They don't call it liquid courage for nothing. — Hannah Harrington

The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off. — Ron White