Tappers Quotes

#1. They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.

Frank Black

#2. The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Heraclitus

#3. I am not my own light unto myself.

Nicolas Malebranche

#4. Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book ...

Nikolai Gogol

#5. I sang in the coffee houses ... in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing.

Judy Collins

#6. [When asked by a male heckler, "Are you a lesbian?"]
Are you my alternative?

Florynce Kennedy

#7. I feel like the secretary to the morning whose only/
responsibility is to take down its bright, airy dictation/
until it's time to go to lunch with the other girls,/
all of us ordering the cottage cheese with half a pear.

Billy Collins

#8. I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

Andreas Vesalius

#9. A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Mark Twain

#10. I followed but I held my tongue. I'd seen children tag after grown men throwing question after question, but I had put childhood aside. My questions could wait, at least until the rain stopped.

Mark Lawrence