Tatty Quotes

#1. The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

Sylvia Plath

#2. Oh, darling, you can't go around with that tatty green canvas thing. You look like some sort of Mary Poppins person who's fallen on hard times.

Helen Fielding

#3. Tatty says oh yes, she knows what he's like. But when she thinks about it, she doesn't.

Christine Dwyer Hickey

#4. Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia.

Richard Corliss

#5. I haven't always hated McDonald's. When my kids were little and I lived in the U.S., they were as susceptible as anyone to Happy Meals and tatty toys that subsequently littered our sitting room.

Margaret Heffernan

#6. 1 tatty old man in jeans - what was he thinking? Jeans are for young people.

Jo Walton

#7. The tatty bears and the chubby brown-haired doll with big brown freckles and all the others had insisted on coming and lay defiantly in my suitcase refusing to budge and make room.

Shappi Khorsandi

#8. [David] Wallerstein discovered that people would spring for more popcorn and soda- a lot more- as long as it came in a single gigantic serving. Thus was born the two-quart bucket of popcorn, the sixty-four-ounce Big Gulp, and, in time, the Big Mac and the jumbo fries.

Michael Pollan

#9. I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.

Elizabeth Warren

#10. As an open fire in a dark room throws romance and pathos into the quiet faces at its edge, so she cast her lights and shadows around the rooms that held her,

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. It used to take years to become a junkie. But crack cut that down to 37 minutes.

Chris Rock

#12. The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.

Martin Rees

#13. Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#14. Wrong like they all caught some exotic disease and died, and the station is now infected with deadly parasites that kill you with bloody hemorrhaging out the eyeballs?
Or wrong like they don't want to encourage visitors?

Ann Aguirre

#15. Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.

Robert Kiyosaki

#16. I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

Tre Cool

#17. In today's world, other people have become an obstacle to our individual pursuits.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#18. Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

Guy Kawasaki

#19. I don't want to be a Major League coach.

Barry Bonds

#20. You are wise as well as short."
"I can also break bricks with my bare hands."
"That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.

Nora Roberts