Terrarium Quotes

#1. Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.

Carolyn Hax

#2. It was a clear, impenetrable hole in the ship: a circular viewport into an alien terrarium where, out past the ghostly reflection of his own face, strange hyperbaric creatures built monstrous artifacts out of sand and coral. Their eyes twinkled like green stars in the gloom.

Peter Watts

#3. Now about this turtle.
I think I'm gonna name it Oliver."
"Why's that?"
"Because he's leaving little turtle poop 'Oliver' his terrarium.

Amy Lane

#4. From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium.

Gina Barreca

#5. By changing your direction, you can always change your destination!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

Dave Eggers

#7. Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.

Tom Landry

#8. I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.

Joe Meno

#9. Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our skills are tested and refined.

Marian Deegan

#10. I don't want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.

Orson Welles

#11. For the sorry truth is that in this most pragmatic land, the purist is generally his own worst enemy.

Harry Stein

#12. I don't need a man in my life.

Enya

#13. I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.

Kim Gordon

#14. When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

Erich Leinsdorf

#15. He ran on the white tiles up through the tunnels, ignoring the escalators, because he wanted to feel his feet move, arms swing, lungs clench, unclench, feel his throat go raw with air.

Ray Bradbury

#16. I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

Grace Hartigan

#17. The hardest thing about traveling is that mostly you get to a point - and it always happens on every tour - where you can choose between eating and sleeping, but you can't do both.

Philip Glass

#18. I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.

Erma Bombeck

#19. But in this meditation technique, we are with the out-breath; there's no particular instruction about what to do until the next out-breath.

Pema Chodron