Tacky Tuesday Quotes

#1. The desire to procreate, in some, is so strong that it creates a sort of tunnel vision in the afflicted. One can't see beyond trying to make a baby, and they never stop to think about what it will really be like once said baby has in fact, arrived.

Karen Fowler

#2. Some people say that we only use 10% of our brains. I say that most only live 10% of their full potential in life.

Nolan R. Baum

#3. When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images and emotions you craft from the memory.

Maureen Murdock

#4. But sitting out tests that have proven essential in lifting the achievement of at-risk students is shortsighted, if not selfish.

Anonymous

#5. Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

Jayne Anne Phillips

#6. Now he knew his way around a ward-and-shield or two. He could chuck a magic missile with the best of them. He was a damn one-man magic-missile crisis.

Lev Grossman

#7. To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters.

J. Jack Halberstam

#8. He'd known it would be good between them, he just wasn't prepared for how good. Like the-bloody-earth-moved good.

Kelly Moran

#9. You're suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything, left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It's all connected, and, somehow, it's all in balance. And that's, of course, when you go, 'Yes!'.

Henry Wessel Jr.

#10. One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

Majora Carter

#11. It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

Rachel Dolezal

#12. Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

Ajahn Chah

#13. Club em, if they want a club, Victor said. Belch uttered a thunderous heehaw of laughter at this. Thump, thump, thump, overhead. The cap moved up and down a little more this time. Surely they would notice it; ordinary ground just didn't have that kind of give.

Stephen King