Turpide Quotes & Sayings

If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess. — Cary Fukunaga

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. — E. M. Forster

Never had anyone said, Listen. Life is short. Pretend your body is still in its twenties. Jump for the brass ring. Swing for those bleachers. Dive into the deep end of the pool. Act like a fool if you must, but at least *live*. — Cathie Pelletier

Satellite technology is a wonderful thing. From space, we can stare down and look at perimeter fences, huts, mine entrances and even sites of mass graves. — John Sweeney

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility. — Bryan Stevenson

When we enter the spiritual realm we are always focused on those big, life altering miracles. Here is a truth that isn't sold to us. Change is a long, gradual process. Yes, you can make things happen immediately, but quite often, amazing things are happening that you can't see. — Ruben Papian

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust. — Christopher Hitchens

God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad was so relieved - he'd say, 'You were terrible; this kid is not going to be an actor.' Finally, I did a play and he said, 'Son - you were really good.' — Kirk Douglas

I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man. — Lord Mountbatten

No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind. — Napoleon Hill

Winning isn't the only goal, sometimes finishing is more important. — Katie Graykowski

Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril. — David Sedaris