Top 17 Tisn't Quotes
#1. No you can't." "I can." "You can't." "Can!" "Can't!" An uncomfortable pause. Then Tom said: "What's your name?" "'Tisn't any of your business, maybe." "Well I 'low I'll MAKE it my business." "Well why don't you?" "If you say much, I will." "Much - much - MUCH. There now.
Mark Twain
#2. I love your hair. It's like a waterfall of black ink," he utters softly.
Petra F. Bagnardi
#3. To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles Eames
#4. If you can see it, chances are it doesn't exist.
Peter Watts
#5. Just once you might try to give me an answer that would please me, Lord Snow.
George R R Martin
#6. That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
Robin Hobb
#7. I don't know which Bible stories ought to be treated as historically accurate, scientifically provable accounts of facts and which stories are meant to be metaphorical. I don't know if it really matters so long as those stories transform my life.
Rachel Held Evans
#9. Oh, my love,' she said. 'What do the only children do?'
'We'll never have to know.
Ann Patchett
#10. Overcompensating or being too eager to please will lessen a man's
respect; it will give the kiss of death to his attraction,
Sherry Argov
#11. Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
Hugh Walpole
#12. I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.
John Green
#13. I'm not having one in the house, Petunia! Didn't we swear when we took him in we'd stamp out that dangerous nonsense?
J.K. Rowling
#14. Tisn't any need for you't'know. Even without you knowin', you function as yourself. That's your black box. In other words, we all carry around this great unexplored 'elephant graveyard' inside us. Outer space aside, this is truly humanity's last terra incognita
Haruki Murakami
#15. My other creative outlet is knitting; aside from being fun, it is my antidote to the film business: I have full creative control, there is no development process, and I can self-finance.
Linda Goldstein Knowlton
#16. I remember when we did our first read-through, Sonny [Bono] looks at the script and he goes, 'Okay, I'll see you guys later. Chai-ay-oh!' And I said, 'It's ciao! Aren't you Italian? C-i-a-o doesn't spell chai-ay-oh.' [Laughs.] Sonny's dead, so he won't be embarrassed if I tell that story.
Teri Garr
#17. Pluralism is a merciful narcotic.
Saki
