Tierney Coffee Table Quotes

#1. The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

Ashley Montagu

#2. When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.

Nathan Fillion

#3. Beer culture is a part of the world of food and drink. It's not just a commodity in cans and bottles, but has a value as an agricultural product with good ingredients.

Michael Jackson

#4. First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.

Renate Linnenkoper

#5. That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

Carl Perkins

#6. A window is just a window. Colored glass: mere glass. But in the sun it becomes more. She would show him, and say, love should do this.

Marie Rutkoski

#7. I used to think the opposite of control was chaos. But it's not. The opposite of control is surrender.

Erin Loechner

#8. Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. Summoned or not, the god will come.

Carl Jung

#10. I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

Isabel Allende

#11. The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names will be erased from the billboards and the theatres and the piers and the magazines and the monuments. You live by myths of immortality, and your myths are not safe.

Robert Montgomery

#12. It is sensible to begin by asking the beginning questions, why imagine power in the first place, and what is the relationship between one's motive for imagining power and the image one ends up with.

Edward Said

#13. We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

Aung San Suu Kyi