Ta Hui Quotes

#1. Department store Santas are apparently being trained to lower children's expectations about toys because of the recession. Yeah, it's weird when you ask Santa for a train set and he's like, 'Yeah, how 'bout a bus token?

Jimmy Fallon

#2. To be the altar boy at the first Mass of the day was a sacred initiation rite. It was like being hazed at a fraternity, only more Catholic.

Ian Morgan Cron

#3. If I'm working in the city, then as soon as I'm home, I try to lock in on my son for a few hours. Every day. I see how important it is that he's starting to come into my world now. It's just an effort to give him that male mode of being.

Mark Ruffalo

#4. The pirates wanted my life, Vargen wanted my country, and my regents wanted to paint rainbows over reality and claim all was well.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#5. The guy who was standing said, "We don't want you here." Reacher said, "You're confusing me with someone who gives a shit what you want.

Lee Child

#6. Do you know what I believe in, Angelo? I believe in my family. I believe in my father. I believe in Santino and Fabia. And I believe in you. The people I love most in the world. Love is the only thing I believe in.

Amy Harmon

#7. As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

Chinua Achebe

#8. Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

Simon Kuznets

#9. I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

Sadie Jones

#10. Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

Austin O'Malley

#11. Sweets and Tarts: The Most Wonderous Bakery in All of Hearts

Marissa Meyer

#12. Finally, she was doing something. She didn't know what, exactly, but action always suited her better than waiting around.

Ann Brashares