Torgrimson Quotes

#1. A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

Igor Stravinsky

#2. Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

Carl Joachim Friedrich

#3. My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

David Beckham

#4. When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.

Ann Romney

#5. I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.

John Edwards

#6. So much importance pressed into so few words. It was just like Jacin.

Marissa Meyer

#7. Blondes are the girlfriend, brunete is the femme fatale, but the heroine, she's the redheaded girl.

Marion Roach

#8. Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it.

Zeeshan Ahmed

#9. The bitch-goddess, as she is called, of Success, roamed, snarling and protective, round the half-humble, half-defiant Michaelis' heels, and intimidated Clifford completely: for he wanted to prostitute himself to the bitchgoddess, Success also, if only she would have him.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. Embrace the grey, for much of life gets out of restraint.

Myself

#11. I had tried so hard to please that I never realized no one was watching.

Mark Nepo

#12. You can't just change me and then leave. You can't.

John Green

#13. I'd need either really high heeled shoes to avoid tripping over, or I was just expected to shuffle along like a slug...

Nicola Claire

#14. We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

William Hazlitt