Txanton Cleverly Quotes & Sayings

Precepts in Buddhism and commandments in Judiasm and Christianity are important jewels that we need to study and practice. They provide guidelines that can help us transform our suffering. — Thich Nhat Hanh

My plans for today are to hang about hoping for a glimpse of her, to have my heart eaten away by the thought of her; to feel my blood bounding maddeningly, ridiculously, like a young boy's; to despair; to realise the weight of my misery and hunger with each step I take. — Elizabeth Taylor

Then I started thinking about tears. What was evolution up to when it rendered the human body incapable of concealing sadness? Is it somehow crucial to the survival of the species that we can't hide our melancholy? Why? What's the evolutionary benefit of crying? To elicit sympathy? Does evolution have a Machiavellian streak? — Steve Toltz

You're missing the point. It's not that I believe in what Lee's saying; it's that I hope he's right. I really, really hope he's right, because what's the alternative? — Alexandra Bracken

Why did you give me a freedom for which I was unfit? Why did you stop teaching me? If you wished it, if you guided me differently, none of all this would happened. I should not now be punished, for no fault at all, by your indifference and even contempt, and you would not have taken from me unjustly all that I valued in life.
Let us be thankful that there is an end of the old emotions and excitements.
That day ended a romance of our marriage. Old feeling became a precious irrecoverable remembrance but a new feeling of love for my kids and their father laid the foundation of a new life and quite different happiness. That life and happiness lasted until to the present time. — Leo Tolstoy

Del Usion
If you knew the person
He thinks he is
You'd have to admit
He's one very special guy. — Laurence Overmire

We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar. — Joe Torre

The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject. — James Gray

It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society. — Adam Smith

Change, no matter how small, requires loss. And the prospect of loss is far more powerful than potential gain. It's difficult to imagine what a change will do to us. This is why we need stories so desperately. — Shawn Coyne

If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle. — Jim Henson

We don't come fresh to even the most inaccessible of landscapes.
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We carry expectations and to an extent make what we meet conform to those expectations.
p 195 — Robert Macfarlane

People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don't know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won't sit still for it. So, they look for scapegoats - the rich ... the banks ... the Chinese. — Bill Bonner

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun. — Jean Genet

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. — Elizabeth Moon