Tartarin Moreira Quotes

#1. A finely carved Black Forest cuckoo clock hung just to the right of the hutch. Phil would love that, Reuben thought. Phil had once collected cuckoo clocks, and their constant chiming and tweeting and cooing had driven everybody at home a little nuts.

Anne Rice

#2. Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

William Feather

#3. My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.

Oleg Cassini

#4. The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.

Candace Bushnell

#5. Trust him to have his bitter politics
Against his unacquaintances the rich
Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged.
Conservatives, they don't know what to save.

Robert Frost

#6. There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right.

Box Brown

#7. I was a curious boy, but the schools were not concerned with curiosity. They were concerned with compliance. I loved a few of my teachers. But I cannot say that I truly believed any of them.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#8. Could you make a computer imagine an entire world? How would you start? A generation of people would wrestle with this problem - they're still wrestling with it.

Austin Grossman

#9. For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.

John Burroughs

#10. The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#11. The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.

Caitlin Moran

#12. It's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a corps de ballet.

Misty Copeland

#13. There have been times that we've had arguments with Brad [Dourif] because he comes in with very strong ideas and, as in any working relationship, sometimes you're going to disagree, and he always goes to the mat and I've just always appreciated that attitude, that he takes it so seriously.

David Kirschner

#14. Sometimes your own tongue can make you deaf and dumb.

Anirban Bose

#15. I'm more fascinated by a character's reaction to the monster than I am by the monster itself.

Nathan Kane