Turquine Quotes & Sayings

I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers. — Akiva Goldsman

The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism. — William Dean Howells

May we always care for our children, not counting the cost, so that they may never believe themselves to be mistakes, but always know their infinite worth. — Pope Francis

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life. — Northrop Frye

Yo, we was here first!" Bandanna joined the shouting match.
"Screw you. I'm here now! What gives you the right to come in here ten minutes too early and screw up my job, anyway? Go the fuck home and leave this to a professional."
Bandanna laughed in disbelief. "A professional? Look at you, man! Who the hell does a holdup in a freaking suit? Not just a suit - a shitty suit that you've been sleeping in for three weeks."
"Oh," Harry said quietly. "Perfect. Now you're slamming me for getting caught in the rain." He began to shout again. "When I planned this job, I didn't plan for it to rain, all right? Can you give me a fucking break here - — Suzanne Brockmann

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse. — Bill Watterson

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it. — Lupita Nyong'o

Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what's already done well; blames show them what's yet to be done well. — Israelmore Ayivor

Coercing a woman out of a burka is as bad as coercing her into one. It's not about the burka. It's about the coercion. — Arundhati Roy

When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement. — Janeane Garofalo