Thrilling Tales Quotes

#1. Although Branwen had no patience for dry lists of names and dates, she had always loved the thrilling tales of the old wars that were told and retold around the hearth in the Great Hall of Garth Milain.

Allan Frewin Jones

#2. Ook, though very clever, was the worst fighter in the tribe. That is how he ended up with Grot-Grot as his woman. Grot-Grot had a bald patch on the top of her head, she was missing an eye and she smelled like a dead skunk. She did have a good sense of humour though.

Aussiescribbler

#3. Is it a good idea or not?? Were we build for that or not??
We know to much so let's remove us??

Deyth Banger

#4. Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

David Hilbert

#5. Would I be commenting on Amy Fisher?
Was that the sort of subject that someone who hoped to become poet laureate should discuss? Would those British laureates who had traditionally written about royal birthdays and royal jubilees have dealt with such goings on?

Calvin Trillin

#6. Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

Gary Keller

#7. Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.

Preet Bharara

#8. There is no such thing as being too independent.

Victoria Billings

#9. What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

Frank Herbert

#10. As much as we might want to control God, history has proven that he is notoriously uncooperative.

Skye Jethani

#11. Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Bernard Meltzer

#12. THRILLING NARRATIVES OF MUTINY, MURDER AND PIRACY, A WEIRD SERIES OF Tales of Shipwreck and Disaster, FROM THE EARLIEST PART OF THE CENTURY TO THE PRESENT TIME, WITH ACCOUNTS OF Providential Escapes AND HEART-RENDING FATALITIES.

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