Tristam Quotes

#1. There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?

C.S. Lewis

#2. Tom hunts alone. While shunned by all he sees, he grows aware that, in reality, life is lived alone. When with a hen, there's only an illusion of sharing; a pretence that life's trials are easier to endure. Even sleep is a barrier that can't be shared.

Peter Gray

#3. The person who is rich is the one who possess kindness, caring, help others when needed, gives things that money can't buy, and spend time with those who need someone to listen to their stories. Sometimes money isn't needed.

Ellen J. Barrier

#4. The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#5. The only reason you should ever look down on someone, is to help them up.

A.J. Garces

#6. The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. If I walked into a restaurant, the other diners would look around and say, 'I hope you're not cooking.'

Vic Tayback

#8. One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

Brit Marling

#9. Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously.

Yi Sun-sin

#10. In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours on them.

Bryant McGill

#12. 'Doctor Who' rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, 'That doesn't make sense.'

Holly Black

#13. In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

Dan Maffei

#14. A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

Edna Ferber

#15. Take a tartan. Sprinkle it with confetti. Light it with strobe lights. Now take a chameleon. Put the chameleon on the tartan. Watch it closely. See?

Terry Pratchett

#16. Upon reflection, I marvel that no one saw through me enough to bundle me off to the nearest mental institution. The fact that it didn't happen depended less on my being a good actress than the fact that I was surrounded, as I had been all my life, by strangers.

Maya Angelou