Timbale Drums Quotes

#1. Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

Tom Wolfe

#2. But to be hanged - is that not unendurable? Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

Epictetus

#3. I liked Kennedy. So far, he is the only American president who could talk with me and with whom I could talk. I know Johnson, but I have not yet a clear opinion of him.

Sukarno

#4. But we were talking about me and my problems."
Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely.
"I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride.

Gail Carriger

#5. I can't figure it out yet, just how to make it perfect for you, but I'm closer than I was yesterday

Michael Tolcher

#6. Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#7. Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

William Shakespeare

#8. I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

Jewel

#9. The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire, especially those which are fruitful" - Abu Bak's warfare rules, to his army

Firas Alkhateeb