Tachdjian Raffi Quotes

#1. Perhaps I feel about you as the artist does about the scene over which his soul has brooded with love: he would tremble to see it confided to other hands; he would never believe that it could bear for another all the meaning and the beauty it bears for him.

George Eliot

#2. A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.

Akbar

#3. I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.

Meg Cabot

#4. They say eyes clear with age.

Philip Larkin

#5. Well, well," said he, at last. "It is, of course, possible that a cunning man might change the tires of his bicycle in order to leave unfamiliar tracks. A criminal who was capable of such a thought is a man whom I should be proud to do business with.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. I am a writer and I want to write.

Jane Bowles

#7. When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

Stevie Wonder

#8. My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

Lewis Black

#9. I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

Matt Dillon

#10. But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

H.P. Lovecraft

#11. The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Eric Hoffer

#12. I was very influenced by the films of the '70s.

Lisa Cholodenko

#13. Well, back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade - that's all that we knew.

Bo Jackson

#14. I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

W. H. Auden