Tallis Quotes

#1. All things are known, Tallis, but most things are forgotten.

Robert Holdstock

#2. I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?

Terry Pratchett

#3. Every one of them had been somebody's son, somebody's friend. Grant rubbed his hands over his face and drew in a long breath, letting it out in a sigh. Perhaps Tallis did go mad, poor bastard. I hate this more

Anne Perry

#4. You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your mouth.

Mike Carey

#5. I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin.

Seth Rogen

#6. My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.

James Horner

#7. There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

E.F. Schumacher

#8. When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

Stanislaw Lem

#10. Perhaps that is the real surprise of love; it exists, but one may not attribute causes and effects to it. The existence may appear to be a mere fallacy to the minds of some, and by the time they realise what hit them, they would already be down and dead.

Faraaz Kazi

#11. It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Blaise Pascal

#12. The extent of neuromanic imperialism is astounding.

Raymond Tallis

#13. First do no harm!

Sophie E. Tallis

#14. She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, 'You will be famous.' "The seed was planted. Ambition fed on the compost of my vanity.

F.R. Tallis

#15. Surroundedness does not come free along with, say, a membrane marking the boundary between the organism and the rest of the material world any more than it comes free with an entity such as a pebble that has a continuous surface marking its limits.

Raymond Tallis

#16. Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.

Raymond Tallis

#17. It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

Frank Tallis

#18. Within the secular world picture, Neuromania and Darwinitis are the biggest piles of rubbish.

Raymond Tallis

#19. I like to stretch my mind by reading and writing and watching educational TV shows like The Bachelor to learn the complex mating rituals of heterosexuals.

Ellen DeGeneres

#20. Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.

Frank Tallis

#21. We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.

Frank Tallis

#22. Prayer is a mighty ministry that any believer can have - anywhere, anytime, and in any circumstance.

Elizabeth George

#23. We are accustomed to the idea that the truth of things may be neither pleasant nor comforting; we are less accustomed to the idea that the truth may be unfruitful.

Raymond Tallis

#24. Am I too late?" Caleb asked as he joined them. "Did he do something stupid?"
"Yeah. On both counts." Tristan stalked past Nick.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

Sylvia Plath

#26. It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night, or be robbed and strangled by strangers. These things happen. Even so, I shall be ahead because of trusting the beach, the night and strangers.

Janet Reno

#27. There is, in part, the glamour of science, which, since it is so spectacularly and usefully right over so many things, is often given authority where it has none.

Raymond Tallis

#28. We are becoming who we will be - forever.

Dallas Willard

#29. There can be no truer faith than the one you might have in yourself.

Ray Torres

#30. I'm not buried in that plot, Karoline. Some woman claiming to be me from the future is."
"Why do they call it a plot, anyway?"
"Because this is how every story ends.

Brian K. Vaughan

#31. I went to a military school, so I'm always talking like 'Yes, sir,' or 'No, ma'am.' I was doing that even before military school, so I've always had it, I guess.

Larry Fitzgerald