Talismanic Quotes

#1. Courage is required to make an initial thrust towards ones coveted goal, But even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve.

Thomas S. Monson

#2. Capital T-truth is about life before death.

David Foster Wallace

#3. There is something talismanic about familiar words.

Marcel Theroux

#4. If you're a guy, you have absolutely no idea what's going on at any time in the relationship, ever. Here's what you know: you know when you're getting laid, and you know when it's all over. Those are the only two things you're aware of.

Adam Carolla

#5. I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

Rufus Wainwright

#6. Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. This book denounces the cultism in chiropractic but supports the appropriate use of spinal manipulation and the research efforts required to solidify its scientific basis. If you are contemplating or receiving chiropractic care, it might help protect both your pocketbook and your health.

Samuel Homola

#8. The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having mainly to do with Habermas and the increased focus on media studies, but the talismanic word has never ceased to be "history."

Paul Fry

#9. A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth.

Marty Rubin

#10. It was true. She was his soul's star. His heart ignited every time she came into the room, flared with every just-so gesture. Anything she touched became instantly talismanic.

Mark Kirkbride