Talaya Thomas Quotes

#1. Jolie laide = "pretty ugly"
Draws you to it ... bored into heart and mind.

Justina Chen

#2. So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. I enjoy feeding every Brain with my words.

Maryann Gestwicki

#4. There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

Ida Tarbell

#5. The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.

Elizabeth George

#6. You're just going to bear witness to his life. I think sometimes that's the greatest gift we can give one another.

Jeanne Ray

#7. Knowledge can be
conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is
possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it
cannot be expressed in words and taught.

Hermann Hesse

#8. Thy wretchedness weighs upon me, so that it to weep invites me.

Dante Alighieri

#9. I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish act.

Roxy Writer

#10. What did the truth matter? All characters once dead, if they continue to exist in memory at all, tend to become fictions.

Graham Greene

#11. I don't want to offend people and I don't want to be mean, but social commentary and comedy for me are part and parcel. I think the greatest social activists are comedians.

Alanis Morissette

#12. I wish it were different, but my body clock wakes me up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. If I want to get enough sleep, I have to be in bed at 10. That means I'm totally a grandma.

Agyness Deyn