Twg Tea Quotes & Sayings

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling. — Henry Mayhew

Good fiction doesn't claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice - the way we all know things should be - without suggesting that's how things really are. Good fiction is the mirage that declares itself a mirage, yet compels us to faith through its beauty. Good fiction is the dream that's too good to be true, so perfect and symmetrical that it gives itself away every time. But it doesn't trick you into suspending your disbelief by trying to look anything like reality. Good fiction makes you acutely, painfully aware of your disbelief, and makes you believe anyway. And when it's done well - when it's done right - good fiction is more real than reality. — P.S. Baber

If you have endured a great despair, then, you did it alone. — Anne Sexton

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. — Ezra Cornell

What's the meaning of "giornalista professionista"? I have always thought a professional to be a good prostitute! — William C. Brown

I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative. — Geraldine Brooks

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry. — Michael Landon

If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button — Ruth Bernhard

A labyrinth of symbols ... An invisible labyrinth of time. — Jorge Luis Borges

I was initially rather charmed by David Cameron, but I think he's revealing himself to be a slightly darker and less charismatic figure than he first appeared. There's a brutality about him. — Peter Capaldi

I am an idea in an era that has no more of them. — Jean Lorrain

We don't do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making the world a better place, saving the lives of innocents, and being better than you are. — Derek Landy