Tussore Quotes & Sayings

I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do. — David Tennant

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?
One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day. — Nicola Yoon

I want to give up being a bullet I've been a bullet too long The question is Can you give up being a killer? — John Agard

We see how everything - the whole world - is belittled by the idea that all creation is moving or ought to move toward an end that some body, some human body, has thought up. — Wendell Berry

Taught me a lesson I should have known all along. What you do to children matters. And they might never forget. She's got a big-time job in California but she don't call or visit anymore. She sends me money and stuff every now and then, but I ain't seen her in I don't know how long. — Toni Morrison

Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries. — James J. Martin

What resists, persists. — Laozi

I know a lot of people recognize me or know me from 'Battlestar Galactica,' but I only did a couple of episodes. — Erica Cerra

For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving. — Amor Towles

In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues. — Joseph Jastrow

Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion. — Oscar Wilde

Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath. — Christopher Moore

Show me a man who mistakes patience for weakness and I'll show you a fool. — DeWayne Owens

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us. — Jef Raskin

I woke up one day and realized I could never be an American. — Helen Mirren