T. J. Perkins Quotes

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!

So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.

I wish for the thing that is best for me.

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

In some ways I'm very structured.

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Our culture is something that has sustained us for thousands and thousands of years and will continue to do so in generations to come.

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.

While writing, you are more interested in seeing what happens with you in the process, because all that writing is just you sorting through and exploring and wondering and figuring out your thoughts.

Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.

I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.

My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them.

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

There is no way that me or anyone else could be like Coach Bryant. I think it would be ridiculous for anyone to try.

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

I didn't know it was possible to simultaneously hate and ache for someone.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

What’d I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.

I'm not interested in making what's easy. I'm interested in making what's beautiful.

Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?

I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...]

It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much.