Tarnation Quotes

#1. He caught a glimpse in the mirror the other day, and how in tarnation did I acquire the face of my father's father?

Colum McCann

#2. Well tarnation you're a meanie pants aren't you?" ~Miss Mary~

Lucian Bane

#3. Lecktrickery? grinned the fool boys, rubbing their rabbits' feet against the spell of these longest syllables in all Tarnation.

William T. Vollmann

#4. Dubya! What in Tarnation!? Why, I'll tan yer hide fer this!So, what's sex like after fifty, anyway?

George W. Bush

#5. Plans?" he snorted. "I'm ninety-three years old! Who in tarnation makes plans at my age? I could stop breathin' any minute now.

Linda Howard

#6. Posthumous retention of copyright is really a gangrenous foot-in-the-door for the coming zombie apocalypse. And who in tarnation really wants that?

Pansy Schneider-Horst

#7. From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.

Charles Francis Richter

#8. Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

Natalie Goldberg

#9. The Count was clearly a fair-minded man. Anyone who didn't think so deserved to die.

Terry Pratchett

#10. I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'

John Searle

#11. If we spend most of our time concerned about things we cannot truly directly influence, what we can influence will be reduced. If we spend our energies on those things over which we can expect positive results, we will expand our influence.

Stephen Covey

#12. Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

Georges Duhamel