Tisdall Nightstand Quotes

#1. The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Jane Addams

#2. I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally.

John Shelby Spong

#3. As for hobbies, I don't really read or watch TV. I'm very active. I like surfing, skiing, riding bikes with my kids, and working out with my friends.

Tom Brady

#4. I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

Mariska Hargitay

#5. My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world.

Karl Blossfeldt

#6. People aren't good at processing important things when they're naked

Kelly Williams Brown

#7. I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

Bruce Springsteen

#8. Don't you ever get a tattoo, understand? All is says is that you ain't open to change.

Nami Mun

#9. If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.

Ali Larter

#10. I was afraid you'd turn into one of those literary types who say books can change the world when they're feeling good about themselves and it's only a book when anybody challenges them.

G. Willow Wilson

#11. The rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They fought - not because the liquor was in them, but because it did not fill them enough.

Nelson Algren

#14. He already knows what I look like," Cath said. "There's no point in being tricky about it now."
"How is doing your hair
and maybe putting on some lip gloss
being tricky?"
"It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny.

Rainbow Rowell