Tumbao Quotes

#1. Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found in certain painters and philosophers who seek to penetrate the darkness which surrounds us purely by means of looking and thinking.

W.G. Sebald

#2. I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

Gordon Parks

#3. Very few people have a lot of time to dedicate to one hobby. I was fortunate to have started so young, because when you're young you have nothing but time. Hours and hours to burn up on something as silly as a movie.

Robert Rodriguez

#4. I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

Thomas A. Edison

#5. You can't even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction to learn about dysfunctional white folk doing things that are weird to normal white folks.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#6. Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can't exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can't exist on a diet without it, either.

David Levithan

#7. In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others.

Greg Reid

#8. You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

Patrice Leconte

#9. GLOUCESTER
Now, good sir, what are you?
EDGAR
A most poor man made tame to fortune's blows,
Who by the art of known and feeling sorrows
Am pregnant to good pity.

William Shakespeare

#10. The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

Richard Grant

#11. [Y]ou are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

Steven L. Peck

#12. The feelings I had for my sister were jumbled together, like the monkeys in a barrel game we'd had as children. All the brightly colored monkeys with their curved arms tangled and entwined, so convoluted that it was almost impossible to separate them.

Karen White

#13. The best way to convey meaning is to tell people what the information means to you yourself, he said. And he gave me three words to use to do that. "I am worried," I told Douglass.

Atul Gawande

#14. I love the rain. It calms me down, somehow, soothes my reckless heartbeats. It's like chamomile tea for my soul.

Jodi Perkins