Trynda Quotes & Sayings

Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly. — Homer

Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now — Colin Powell

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be. — Robert Winston

I had never felt more alone. That was what happened when you let people in. — Kathryn Croft

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do. — Jewel

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him. — Ben Jonson

Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the fascination of a photograph is not in its eccentric composition but in what it has to say: its information content. And, on the other hand, composition always also has its own fortuitous rightness. — Gerhard Richter

If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief! — Naomi Shihab Nye

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice. — Ambrose Bierce

Like hell he was," said the first C.I.D. man. "I'm the C.I.D. man arround here."
Major Major could barely recognize him because he was wearing a faded maroon corduroy bathrobe with open seams under both arms, linty flannel pajamas, & worn house slippers with one flapping sole. — Joseph Heller