Timms Quotes

#1. Places change you, Miss Timms, and deserts change us pale northerners so much, our own mothers wouldn't recognize us.

David Mitchell

#2. I don't always understand poetry!'
'You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it ... whenever.

Alan Bennett

#3. Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.

Danielle Steel

#4. The Ticket-wallah, whose pimples bubbled as I watched, was as intractably dense as his counterpart in King's Cross. The Corporation breeds them from the same stem cell.

David Mitchell

#5. Some Google employees have their self-driving vehicles take them to work. These car robots don't look like something from 'The Jetsons'; the driverless features on these cars are a bunch of sensors, wires, and software. This technology 'works.'

Tyler Cowen

#6. Language dazzles and deceives because it is masked by faces, because we see it emerging from the lips, because lips please and eyes beguile. But words on paper, black on white, reveal the naked soul.

Guy De Maupassant

#7. Where power beckoned the strongest of men to come and lay hold to its glory, there would always be greed and war.

Lexy Timms

#8. To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

Ben Jonson

#9. Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.

John Of The Cross

#10. Our vision of the heavenly realm ... can sustain us through the most difficult of days and circumstances. It births hope amidst hardship and nurtures faith amidst opposition.

David Timms

#11. The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win.

Jean-Michel Charlier

#12. Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.

Inio Asano

#13. A kitten, a nice, little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and feed, and feed, and feed!

Bram Stoker