Tisn't Quotes

#1. Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

Hugh Walpole

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Pluralism is a merciful narcotic.

Saki

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Oh, my love,' she said. 'What do the only children do?'

'We'll never have to know.

Ann Patchett

#11. Men ... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

Frederick William Robertson

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Just once you might try to give me an answer that would please me, Lord Snow.

George R R Martin

#15. If you can see it, chances are it doesn't exist.

Peter Watts

#16. 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

#17. I love your hair. It's like a waterfall of black ink," he utters softly.

Petra F. Bagnardi