Top 100 S.A. Tawks Quotes
#1. You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.
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#2. She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.
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#3. I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.
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#5. I don't make people smoke pot or meth, snort coke, put pills or tabs in their mouths or shoot themselves up with heroin. I just transport the stuff.
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#6. Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit?
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#7. It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.
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#8. My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan.
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#9. Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life.
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#10. The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it.
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#11. No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.
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#12. As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died.
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#13. I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.
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#14. The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again.
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#15. I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit.
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#16. I'm not a hero, though. I'm just a man.
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#17. Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?
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#18. The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit.
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#19. Patience, persistence and hard work lead to success and happiness. Or you can do whatever the hell you want and with a bit or a whole lot of luck you'll stumble onto success and happiness.
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#20. Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.
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#21. Sure, I might not be someone to look up to, but you're no role model either.
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#22. You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing.
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#23. I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined.
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#24. It'll be the biggest decision of my life. Knowing me, I'll probably make the wrong choice.
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#25. Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.
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#26. They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher.
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#27. A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion.
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#28. At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland.
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#29. The truth, Ms Rainn, is that advice and inspirational quotes and sayings may give you a kick start, but it's up to you to keep that motivation alive.
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#30. How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good.
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#31. This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him.
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#32. Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.
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#33. It's okay, Ms Rainn, you were simply lost in your imagination.
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#34. The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability.
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#35. There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan.
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#36. It was a start, and a start is all anyone needs to put an end to something.
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#37. Don't just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control.
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#38. No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can.
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#39. Your choices can only be limited by your mind.
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#40. There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it.
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#41. Lighting a cigarette with a sense of achievement for company made the journey worth it.
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#42. A misadventurer's greatest fear is their mother.
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#43. A gut full of heroin and the looming possibility of bunking in an overcrowded cell in Kerobokan to await my death makes you feel a bit sorry for some of the things you've done.
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#44. I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'.
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#45. Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school.
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#46. By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to.
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#47. The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else.
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#48. The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.
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#49. Your choice is your choice and you need to accept what happens, not shift the blame to someone else if it doesn't turn out your way.
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#50. We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality.
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#51. Game changers will, most of the time, throw you off your game.
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#52. No two stories are the same. They may seem the same at first glance, but, once you take a closer look, give the story some of your time, you realise its unique qualities.
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#53. Your doubt survives by stuffing itself with your confidence.
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#54. Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray.
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#55. It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.
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#56. What does a guy say to that? What does an inexperienced guy say to a beautiful, smart, proper girl who's not supposed to say things like that?
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#57. The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.
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#58. But, you must remember, whatever you eat, make sure you have at least one bowl of salad with it.
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#59. I have two moods when I get drunk. The common mood is the lazy, happy-go-lucky guy. The uncommon mood is the frustrated, self-deprecating guy. That night was the latter.
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#60. Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will.
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#61. You can't draw lines in the sand like that. Humour's a tsunami that doesn't care about your little lines.
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#62. You must learn not to rely so heavily on others. Only then will help come when you truly need it.
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#63. WARNING: The production of spirit is a very delicate and dangerous procedure. It should be left to the professionals and under absolutely no circumstance be replicated.
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#64. The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of.
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#65. I do not steal imagination. I use it and replace it by making people read.
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#66. The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important.
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#67. Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try.
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#68. The day, like all good days, passed far too quickly.
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#69. We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.
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#70. The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.
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#71. What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine.
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#72. What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so.
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#73. Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel.
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#74. Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives.
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#75. A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem.
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#76. People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough.
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#77. Being determined delinquents, Peyton and I jumped the barricades and wandered around the dilapidated interior.
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#78. Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?
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#79. In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love.
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#80. It's called the kindness of a fellow human being. You should try it sometime, ya fuck.
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#81. He seemed like he was baiting me to ask, like he wanted me to know his troubles but wanted me to ask first.
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#82. I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me.
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#83. I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.
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#84. All writers read, Ms Rainn. With dwindling amounts of books circulating imagination, the less writers of all mediums will be able to exercise their own imaginations.
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#85. It is neither poor handling nor the weather that turns the pages of a book a fine sepia. It is the reader's imagination.
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#86. I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself.
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#87. Do you want me to call the internet police for you?
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#88. Be warned, reader. Once seen, something cannot be unseen and once read, something cannot be unread. What lies ahead can be the future of spirit but the future of spirit can also be what lies inside your head.
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#89. You need a break every once in a while to enjoy the everyday and you need the everyday to enjoy the break you take every once in a while.
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#90. Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone.
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#91. I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried.
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#92. She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination.
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#93. We smoked the joints down to the roaches and then relaxed beneath the stars to let the drug form dazzling constellations.
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#94. Doesn't she understand that a key factor to learning is the want to learn?
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#95. Most would probably call it a dumb idea, but considering my wants it was a good idea.
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#96. Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.
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#97. He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals.
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#98. I'd gotten high enough to fly through time.
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#99. The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about.
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#100. You're a man, man. That means seeing two rocks on the ground that kind of look like tits will arouse you.
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