Tristine Edward Quotes

#1. Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?

Alice Munro

#2. Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.

Joyce Meyer

#3. You are in love with intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.

Paul Valery

#4. Culture is a virus. It distorts your view of the world and destroys your capacity to think independently.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#5. No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

W. H. Auden

#6. Flattery is never so obvious to the recipient.

Orson Scott Card

#7. I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.

Patrice O'Neal

#8. Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.

Sanford Meisner

#9. I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation.

Christopher Moore

#10. The horror that grand people have for the snobs who strive so hard to make their acquaintance is also felt by masculine men for inverts, and by women for every man who is too much in love with them.

Marcel Proust

#11. Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.

Don Kardong