Tyshawn Colquitt Quotes & Sayings

Pity is nary a friend you want to invite, nor an acquaintance you would accompany. — Euphrates Arnaut Moss

I know that eggs do well to stay out of frying pans. — George R R Martin

The cause didn't seem sacred to her. The war did not seem to be holy affair. — Margaret Mitchell

Do what you will, only do something. — John Lubbock

The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless. — George R R Martin

Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it. — Holly Black

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems. — Ramez Naam

Though my father was a sirdar, he always carried loads. It is hard for someone who is walking unburdened to generate in others an enthusiasm for work. — Jamling Tenzing Norgay

I've pretty much gotten to the top of my sport. — Monica Brant

I'm a fairly quiet and private person. So I haven't sought publicity. — Mark Walter

One of the words I railed against was "personality," as in a "TV personality." But now I wonder if it isn't the only word for that vast swarm of people who are famous for being famous - and possibly nothing else. What did the Gabor sisters actually do? — William Zinsser

She it is, she, that found me
In the morphia honeymoon;
With silk and steel she bound me
In her poisonous milk she drowned me,
Even now her arms surround me — Aleister Crowley

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper. — Douglas Coupland

Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die — Paul Watson

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer. — Pico Iyer