Troy Speaking Quotes

#1. His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

Elias Canetti

#2. Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!

Benjamin Franklin

#3. When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three
I was hardly me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was Five, I was just alive.
But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever,
So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.

A.A. Milne

#4. Founder Rouse wanted to challenge a lot of ingrained biases in our culture; taste was not among them. He gave people the ticky-tacky houses they wanted. The only real choices were brick or wood siding, a Baltimore or a D.C. prefix for your phone.

Laura Lippman

#5. I am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle.

Evangeline Lilly

#6. The letter K was the first one in the alphabet which had not, with more or less justification, been used to designate other vitamins, and it also happened to be the first letter in the word 'koagulation' according to the Scandinavian and German spelling.

Henrik Dam

#7. At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.

IO Tillett Wright

#8. I didn't grow up around my father. I didn't really grow up around my mother, either. I was raised by a community of people. Spiritually speaking, my father is in Heaven, and that is who I look to for all my answers. And that's why my faith is very strong and why my passion is strong.

Troy Polamalu

#9. Chicks bleed out their vaginas all the time.

Pope Benedict XVI

#10. [It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to political statements the aura of eternal truth.

George Oppen

#11. I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.

Andre Balazs

#12. I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.
- Troy -

August Wilson

#13. If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.

Denis Waitley

#14. Once again the thing to do was not to think too deeply, just keep her thoughts nice and level and focused on what she had to do.

Terry Pratchett

#15. How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with it, we do as we please. It doesn't require the breakdown of a social order. It takes a six-hour plane flight.

Aminatta Forna

#16. No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can

Byron Katie