Uncle Tadpole Quotes & Sayings

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. — Camille Paglia

I'm very lucky to be doing what I'm doing, and the reason I'm doing everything is because of fans. — Tony Oller

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life. — Garrett Hedlund

For three months,
a person sits and looks at you,
imagining a kiss. — Etgar Keret

It was interesting, I thought, that the memorial to Tip was grander than the memorial to the men who took part in the dam-busters raids, but then I remembered that this was England and Tip was a dog. — Bill Bryson

It was common for my father to sit my sisters down and tell them things like, "I saw a girl working in the bank in town, and she was a girl just like you." My parents had never completed primary school. They couldn't speak English or even read that well. My parents only knew the language of numbers, buying and selling, but they wanted more for their kids. That's why my father had scraped the money together and kept Annie in school, despite the famine and other troubles. — William Kamkwamba

The companies in our examples started with a mutual recognition of the power of collaboration and strong commitment to make it work. — Reuben Slone