Tarpinian Opportunity Quotes

#1. My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

Chloe Sevigny

#2. Somehow is a super-weasel, a word that betrays that the author didn't want to bother thinking out the story - "Somehow

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. She just happened to feel like it. Wasn't that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?

Richard Yates

#4. Victim" and "Volunteer" can often be the two sides of the same coin.

Jose N. Harris

#5. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. - Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

#6. It's important to understand that at every point of opposition to who we are or to what God has called us to do, we are presented with the options of either conforming and giving in, or standing our ground and becoming stronger in who God has made us to be

Gabriel Wilson

#7. And why not do something new every day of your life? Change! Change!

Elaine Stritch

#8. I've never, ever tasted beer.

Mike Huckabee

#9. Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything around a street sculpture-they all become part of it. A two-dimensional work, being confined to surfaces, doesn't have as much of a capacity.

Mark Jenkins

#10. Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Chuck Hagel