Tom > Tom's Quotes

“Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.”
― Baltasar Gracián y Morales

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Oh, bother!,” said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead.”
― David Weber

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― Omar Khayyam, رباعيات خيام

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera