Turlupine Quotes & Sayings

You are so ... odd."
"I shall take that as a compliment."
-Thor to No'One — J.R. Ward

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs. — John Denver

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions. — Ambrose Bierce

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases. — Isaac Asimov

Perrin told me about his people before I ever came here," she said. He was not a man to brag, but things had a way of coming out. "When hail flattens your crops, when the winter kills half your sheep, you buckle down and keep going. When Trollocs devastated the Two Rivers, you fought back, and when you were done with them, you set about rebuilding without missing a step." She would not have believed that without seeing for herself, not of southerners. These people would have done very well in Saldaea, where Trolloc raids were a matter of course, in the northern parts at least. "I cannot tell you the weather will be what it should tomorrow. I can tell you that Perrin and I will do what needs to be done, whatever can be done. And I don't need to tell you that you will take what each day brings, whatever it is, and be ready to face the next. That is the kind of people the Two Rivers breeds. That is who you are. — Robert Jordan

Howdy, ma'am. You always talk to yourself?
Velia glanced up into bright eyes, as blue as the flame on a cigarette lighter, belonging to a man standing in front of her desk wearing a cowboy hat tipped back on his head. — Mary J. McCoy-Dressel

But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness. — William Johnson Cory

I'd love to have a child. Either one or 40. I love kids. — Chris Kattan

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry. — Charles Bukowski

I don't like to be the guy that stands out. I like kind of sneaking up on guys instead of being out front. — Roy Oswalt

Quirrell is, in effect, turned into a temporary Horcrux by Voldemort. He — J.K. Rowling

Wall Street has blanketed America in a miasma of cynicism, and much of it is directed against Wall Street. The Street has only itself to blame. — Robert B. Reich

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson