Tattled On Quotes

#1. I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

Christine Lavin

#2. My name is Bis," he said, "and I was kicked off the basilica because I was spitting on the people coming in. Suck-up little Glissando thinks she knows angel dust from dirt and tattled on me.

Kim Harrison

#3. But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

Lawrence Hill

#4. to every kid in Georgetown and in all "the Gardens" of the world: your voices matter, your dreams matter, your lives matter. Be roses that grow in the concrete.

Angie Thomas

#5. I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.

Mark Valley

#6. Miss Sarah never tattled. She tugged the rug over

Sue Monk Kidd

#7. Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

John Stuart Mill

#8. What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, thou canst not alter it; therefore wait; and be patient

Mark Twain

#9. Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we are increasingly controlled by large institutions, large companies and large systems.

Martin Parr

#10. I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.

Gordon Strachan

#11. But why, in God the Father's name, should they want to destroy Athos? Is Cetaganda - controlled by women or something?" A

Lois McMaster Bujold

#12. I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I thought it presented Jesus as a visitor from another planet; in addition, John's gospel is and has been interpreted as a document that fuels anti-Semitism in the church.

John Shelby Spong

#13. Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. Treats and tricks.
Witch broomsticks.
Jack-o-lanterns
Lick their lips.

Crows and cats.
Vampire bats.
Capes and fangs
And pointed hats.

Werewolves howl.
Phantoms prowl.
Halloween's
Upon us now.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#15. When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

Boris Becker

#16. Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction!

Andy Biersack

#17. Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

Paddy Chayefsky