Trulls Rod Quotes

#1. Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

Aeschylus

#2. We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.

Condoleezza Rice

#3. Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

Elizabeth McCracken

#4. I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

Franz Kafka

#5. The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

Armistead Maupin

#6. I believe in power of speech, and food inside prison.

Popo Santos

#7. Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two.

H.G. Mewis

#8. The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.

Thomas Huxley

#9. There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There is as much need for sunshine in our heart as for sunshine in the world. Today, as perhaps never before, mankind needs encouragement and cheer.

David O. McKay

#10. ROSALIND (AS GANYMEDE): Well, time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let me try.

William Shakespeare

#11. Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

Robin McKinley