Tuinen Quotes & Sayings

Many children, early on, acquire a love of places they have never been. Often, such wonder is summarily crushed on the crawl through the sludge of murky, confused adolescence on to the flat, cracked pan of adulthood with its airless vistas ever lurking beyond the horizon. Oh, well, sometimes such gifts of curiosity, delight and adventure do indeed survive the stationary trek, said victims ending up as artists, scholars, inventors and other criminals bent on confounding the commonplace and the platitudes of peaceful living. But never mind them for now, since, for all their flailing subversions, nothing really ever changes unless in service to convenience. — Steven Erikson

Maybe some people are meant to be in the same story. — Jandy Nelson

He hadn't lied. He honestly liked her house, for the same reasons he was drawn to the woman. There was no artifice about either one. — Ruth Wind

One thing you try not to do as a father, as a coach, is pressure your son to do something that you've done. You don't just keep saying, "this is what I've done, this is what I've done." You have to take a little piece at a time. — Patrick Willis

Look at Baltimore back in 2000. They had an outstanding defense. They could run the ball, and they had a quarterback that didn't turn it over that much. I think that is a plan that can bring you great success. — Bob McNair

I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF. — Jo Walton

We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments. — Kim Campbell

I can endure many things, but cold and wet is my Achilles' heel. I could withstand the heat of the desert or the tropical forests described by travelers to the southern regions of America without incident, I think. But unrelenting rain and cold I simply cannot abide."

"How unfortunate that you should be born in England, then," Quill said with a laugh. — Manda Collins

No. I grew a beard because no one was around to teach us boys how to shave." . — Penny Reid

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. — Steve Jobs

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch — Slavoj Zizek

Love is the one thing in this world that you should never have to go through alone ... For unreciprocated love is the most soul crushing experience you will ever go through. — Ben Mitchell