Tuireann Quotes & Sayings

Big Cyndi crossed the room with an agility that belied the bulk. She wrapped me in an embrace that made me feel as if I'd been mummified in wet attic insulation. In a good way. — Harlan Coben

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me. — Ben Carson

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The bottom line is clear: Climate change is a reality, and it is having a real impact. — Eric Schneiderman

He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to explain their mental processes in words. — Agatha Christie

This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true. — Elizabeth Strout

Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer. — Harry S. Truman

[Once Ummon asked a lesser light Are you a gardener> Yes it replied Why have turnips no roots> Ummon asked the gardener who could not reply Because said Ummon rainwater is plentiful] I think about this for a moment. Ummon's koan is not difficult now that I am regaining the knack of listening for the shadow of substance beneath the words. The little Zen parable is Ummon's way of saying, with some sarcasm, that the answer lies within science and within the antilogic which scientific answers so often provide. The rainwater comment answers everything and nothing, as so much of science has for so long. As Ummon and the other Masters teach, it explains why the giraffe evolved a long neck but never why the other animals did not. It explains why humankind evolved to intelligence, but not why the tree near the front gate refused to. — Dan Simmons

Why be uptight about bowel movements and sex? We all have sex. We all have penises
except for those of us who have vaginas. — Howard Stern

Pull yourself out of the dirt, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse and ride towards the sunset. — Michael Dean Russell Jr.