Tellie Tubby Quotes

#1. I exaggerate a lot and I get fiction and reality mixed up, but I don't actually ever lie.

Lucia Berlin

#2. What happened in the virtual world, where beauty existed for the purpose of being hated and besmirched, was more compelling than what happened in the real world, where beauty seemed to have no purpose at all.

Jonathan Franzen

#3. The drowned panic of not being able to ask questions or have any input into what somebody's saying is so awful it sort of dwarfs the pain.

David Foster Wallace

#4. Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#5. Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. Memory is for what is hoped; hope is for what is remembered.

Craig Keen

#7. They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like it.

C.E. Murphy

#8. I wasn't thinking all of them - just Zed and Victor. Zed as the seventh son has a touch of most of our skills and can hold us together when we do a joint investigation. He's a pain in the neck but a useful one.

Joss Stirling

#9. To want is to have a weakness.

Margaret Atwood

#10. In 1975 a Senate committee headed by Frank Church found that the [Central Intelligence] Agency had planned a number of assassination operations, using everything from poison to machine guns and sometimes mob hit men

Jim Garrison

#11. And when we think we lead, we are most led. - Lord Byron, The Two Foscari (1821)

Raine Miller

#12. Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

Munshi Premchand

#13. An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James