Trotting Poles Quotes & Sayings

Don't touch my papers," Uncle Julian said, trying to cover them with his hands. "You get away from my papers, you bastard."
"What!?" said Charles.
"I apologize," Uncle Julian said to Constance. "Not language fitting for your ears, my dear. Just tell this young bastard to stay away from my papers. — Shirley Jackson

If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man. — Ben Harper

We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passing: the righteous, fair-skinned Nephites, led by Nephi, and their bitter adversaries, the Lamanites, as the followers of Laman were known. The Lamanites were "an idle people, full of mischief and subtlety," whose behavior was so annoying to God that He cursed the whole lot of them with dark skin to punish them for their impiety. — Jon Krakauer

I must give myself permission not to like myself. It's ok. Plenty of other people don't like me either. And I have much higher standards. — Quentin R. Bufogle

There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don't have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time. — Craig Stone

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate. — Michael Bloomberg

I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no more for you then than it does for you now - then sold real estate and did theater for nine years. — Kurt Fuller

One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though. — Gregory Benford

I do not need a lot of money to be happy. — Debra Winger

And pain is relative; My particulars may be "better" of "worse" than the patient next to me, but individually our biological framework limits our ability to tolerate suffering; that is what brings us to out knees, flips the switch of our depression, and forces us to retreat from the rest of the world. That is what we have in common. — Gail Griffith

True affluence is to not need anything. — Gary Snyder

I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears. — Rajneesh

I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday. — Michelle Trachtenberg

I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey ... I just couldn't get enough. — Dolly Parton