Zirzow Tree Quotes

#1. We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

#3. Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.

Pedro Almodovar

#4. Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless.

Donald Hall

#5. Let muggles manage without us!

J.K. Rowling

#6. Italians love emotional people. If you're reserved you either have something to hide or you're just plain stupid.

Joe Novella

#7. I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. What did turtles evolve from? Really, I want to know. And for God's sake, don't say lizards, because turtles are nothing like lizards. They could not be more different.

Gwen Stefani

#9. You could have learned from a book, they are for all intents and purposes quite safe. What one does with the information gathered however is a different matter altogether.

S. Vagus

#10. I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest.

Haskell Wexler