Tippy The Turtle Quotes

#1. That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#2. For Marquez, the transition from standing around to dancing was instantaneous and total. It wasn't about looking cool, it was about losing all contact with the normal world, gong away to a place where her body and mind and the music were all the same thing.

Katherine Applegate

#3. I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.

David Deutsch

#4. I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.

Pete Rozelle

#5. Everything bad has ... you know, has a good.

Ross O'Donovan

#6. ...dismayed that I would pass up true adventure for the sake of a fake one I'd never get around to inventing.

Hollis Gillespie

#7. Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

Willie McCovey

#8. The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.

James Brolin

#9. Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

Alison Lurie

#10. We'd better get there soon," said Corwin. "They're probably building new streets in Paris right this minute."
"What if I don't want to, being a lesbian?"
Corwin fell silent; after a while he spoke.
"So you think it might be permanent?

Louise Erdrich

#11. The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.

Elizabeth Bowen

#12. Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

Paul Banks

#13. What someone says and what happened are usually two different things.

Markus Zusak

#14. Most people assume the War on Drugs was launched in response to the crisis caused by crack cocaine in inner-city neighborhoods.

Michelle Alexander