Tumansky R 11 Quotes

#1. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories
those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost

Russell Baker

#2. Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the end of the day.

Michael Leunig

#3. Black_Venus: Here it goes:
Curious mosaic
Continental drift
Parabolic metaphor
Elemental rift
Time and transposition
Conscious intermission
Assertion?
Desertion
Black_Venus: That's all I have so far. You finish it.
Me: How about Spanish Inquisition.

Julie Anne Peters

#4. I was a late bloomer. I'm not one of those girls who's like, "I love my body! Hey, everybody, come look at my body!"

Lizzy Caplan

#5. The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

Walt Whitman

#6. Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her ... he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his soul bare before her.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. My mother told stories - of their life in the war and how she'd played the accordion in the air-raid shelter and it had got rid of the rats. Apparently rats like violins and pianos but they can't stand the accordion ...

Jeanette Winterson

#8. Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Vladislav Rastorotsky

#9. There are plenty of monsters hidden behind smiles of seemingly normal folks.

Madison Johns

#10. If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.

Frederick Lenz

#11. I do a lot of screen re-writing.

Bruce Vilanch

#12. The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

William Hague

#13. Don't keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your precious something hidden for discovery. When it is discovered, it shall win awe and admiration, and it shall be an inspiration!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#14. Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

Jean Baudrillard