Trubache Quotes & Sayings

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read. — Henning Mankell

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be. — David Levithan

I have a simple taste, only the best. — Oscar Wilde

We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state. — Bertrand Russell

That late bloomers bloom late because they simply aren't much good until late in their careers. — Malcolm Gladwell

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal. — Helen Fielding

The basic fact is that Christianity as it was born in the mind of this Jewish thinker and teacher appears as a technique of survival for the oppressed. That it became, through the intervening years, a religion of the powerful and the dominant, used sometimes as an instrument of oppression, must not tempt us into believing that it was thus in the mind and life of Jesus. 'In him was life; and the life was the light of men.' Wherever his spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for he announced the good news that fear, hypocrisy, and hatred, the three hounds of hell that track the trail of the disinherited, need have no dominion over them. — Howard Thurman

No idea is a bad Idea. No dream is a bad dream. If your dream was good enough to have its good enough to do — Darrius Garrett

Angeles was safe from invasion; the invaders wouldn't find a place to park - I — Robert A. Heinlein

Love hard. Fight harder — Jamie McGuire

and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at everyone, and yet to avoid all eyes. I — F Scott Fitzgerald

If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same. — Edward Snowden

Don't moralize at me! I have no love
For images, old gods, prophetic words.
I want to talk to Utnapishtim!
Tell me how. — Herbert Mason

I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of Mice and Men,' I said at the time that the dog must have been an excellent literary critic. — John Steinbeck

I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but I cannot remember one hour in which her children needed her and did not find her. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward