Thaxters Garden Quotes

#1. My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. Let's at least hope it's not a gallu.
Why? They're not all bad, in a smelly, need-to-be-killed kind of way.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic ... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. I was often forced to whip him, which some men do not mind doing and which in fact some enjoy doing, but which I did not like to do; and afterward he, Tub, believes me cruel and thought to himself, Sad life, sad life.

Patrick DeWitt

#5. In the morning, fog. As it slowly lifted, the expedition set off.

Stephen E. Ambrose

#6. It is possible to be confident and still practice humility. Be confident in the success of the teachable, sure in the power & grace of That which supports you.

Russell Kyle

#7. I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#8. In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Brett Favre

#9. When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where they take tourists who say that they don't want to go to tourist places. These places are, of course, full of tourists.

Douglas Adams

#10. A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

Mason Cooley

#12. You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?

Tabitha Suzuma

#13. The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.

Liam Mellows

#14. All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,

Greg Bear

#15. In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man ... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

Helen Thomas