Tryptophan Quotes

#1. Tryptophan: a chemical in turkey meat rumored to make you sleepy and careless. One of the many minefields in the landscape of the family Thanksgiving.

Karen Joy Fowler

#2. As winter approaches - bringing cold weather and family drama - we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.

Sarah MacLean

#3. Turkey's great if you're one of those people who can't sleep on planes because when the tryptophan kicks in, it's no problem.

Mike Pesca

#4. Hey," she called out to Liam. "You better bring my sister home."
Liam looked at Scout, and in that look, Talley saw enough love that it made her heart ache. "Always," he said.

Tammy Blackwell

#5. They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Diana Princess Of Wales

#6. I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

Ayn Rand

#7. We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch.

Bob Ross

#8. Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome
black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds

Barack Obama

#9. Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.

Kevin Costner

#10. I'm not a person who naturally loves to wake up in the morning and go 'Yeah, I'm going to work out for five hours - wooh!' Like, that's not my thing. I'm from Texas. I like to eat carbs. I like to chill out with my friends and do anything but 150 push-ups and sit-ups.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#11. He would like to get out of his own body for a while; he'd like to be somebody else.

Margaret Atwood

#12. I would like to be famous but unknown.

Edgar Degas

#13. I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home.
Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup:

Groucho Marx

#14. She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in the end doing them irreparable harm.

Marcia Muller

#15. Everything flows, nothing stays still.

Heraclitus

#16. We write to discover what we think.

Joan Didion

#17. I learned by example ... As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.

Teresita Sy-Coson