Turali Quotes & Sayings

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation. — George Mikes

And now I knew myself to be generous with encouragement only when I either did not want the thing the other person sought of did not believe the person would really get it. — Curtis Sittenfeld

As he reads, his eyes graze each poem's lines like a needle over an LP's grooves, reassembling them into uniform arcades. What he is looking for is key: a gap in the book's mask, a loose thread to unravel its veil. He tries tricks to find new openings- reading sideways, reading upside down, reading white space instead of text- but the words always close ranks like tiles in a mosaic, like crooks in a lineup, and mock him with their blithe expressions. — Martin Seay

I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script. — Luke Evans

If there is a God who made us and we did wrong before His eyes - as George says - at least we did wrong only because we were as God made us, and I do not think that He should set traps. Oh, you should know better than George! Let us not bring all that back into the world again - the angry God, the mean God - the one who does not tell us the rules of the game, and then strikes us when we break them. Let us not bring Him back. — George R. Stewart

The new oligarchy must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists until in the end the politicians become merely the scientists' puppets. — C.S. Lewis

Life is brighter on the lighter side. — L.M. Fields

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible. — Matthew Perry

Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice - made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life. — George W. Bush