Turquatic Quotes & Sayings

I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings. — Edith Green

I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. — Judith Viorst

Perchance to dream
"What are you doing here, Ariel? I would have thought you'd be halfway to Timbuktu."
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The comparison might strike you as farfetched. What (you might be asking) can a Broadway musical possibly add to the legacy of a Founding Father--a giant of our national life, a war hero, a scholar, a statesman? What's one little play, or even one very big play, next to all that?
But there is more than one way to change the world . To secure their freedom, the polyglot American colonists had to come together, and stick together, in the face of enormous adversity. To live in a new way, they first had to think and feel in a new way. It took guns and ships to win the American Revolution, but it also required pamphlets and speeches--and at least one play. — Jeremy McCarter

I was asked if I'd had a chance to spend any time gambling since we'd arrived. I wanted to respond that life was a gamble, and we were all losers. — Penny Reid

Everyone wants a Christmas tree. If you had a Christmas tree Santa would bring you stuff! Like hair curlers and slut shoes. — Janet Evanovich

I'd been taught not to like myself,because the people around me didn't, for whatever reason like me. — Iyanla Vanzant

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high. — Ry Cooder

No man or woman is uniformly successful ... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt. — Barnaby Keeney

The gift of sight to see beyond The darker clouds of now! — John McLeod