Teh Tarik Quotes

#1. I don't partake, really, of any of the typical rock-star-lifestyle things you could think of. I try to be responsible when I'm out on the road. I take it pretty seriously, what I'm doing, as something that's good for the world, and my family, and everyone.

Matisyahu

#2. I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?

Jenny Lewis

#3. The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#4. The wind pounced on them hard. It had blown some of the cloud away and stretched the rest across the sky like rags on a loom to make a rug. A blue and white and gray rug like that would b pretty, thought Arry. But how do I know that? Do I know it?

Pamela Dean

#5. Do you ever smile, boy?" he demanded. "If you can't laugh and smile, life is worthless. Do you hear me?" he yelled. "It's NOTHING!

Avi

#6. To understand something is to be delivered of it.

Baruch Spinoza

#7. Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.

Gregg Harper

#8. Was it this image of the woman she once was that made her fingers tremble? Or did she feel for this man in her bed who'd quietly started weeping for reasons she didn't understand?

Adam Johnson

#9. I'm like a child who belongs to nobody.

Lana Del Rey

#10. There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It is not enough to despise wealth, but you must also feed the poor and, more importantly, you must follow Christ.

Saint John Chrysostom

#11. You're the center of my world, precious. Every minute of every day. Even when I'm not with you." He brushed his lips against mine. "You make it so easy to fall so hard.

Laurelin Paige

#12. You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

E.B. White

#13. Truth does not demand belief ...

Dan Barker

#14. Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

Alexander McCall Smith