Teresa Medeiros Quotes

A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

Teresa Medeiros

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• Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Health

• Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Questions
  • Minded
  • Beggarmem

• I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Believe

• Never settle for second when first is available

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Firsts
  • Available
  • Settling

• Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Criminal
  • Classes

• Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • College
  • Students
  • Texas

• My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

  

  S. R. Nathan
  • Country
  • Perception
  • Two

• Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Passion
  • Values
  • Instinct

• The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Problem
  • Justice
  • Human Species

• The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.

  

  Socrates
  • Reality
  • Greatness
  • Key

• Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Sex
  • Birth
  • Genuis

• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

  

  William Feather
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Memories

• Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Hours

• You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Day
  • Stamps

• Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Human
  • Leaders
  • Interests

• Animals have always been therapeutic for me to work with; they help me get me grounded from being on the road.

  

  Hank Williams III
  • Animal
  • Grounded
  • Therapeutic

• Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail.

  

  Virginia Graham
  • Funny
  • Dog
  • Tails

• A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Already

• I think that Ryu Chishu, or Tanaka Kinuyo, or to be more precise, the imaginary characters they portrayed, were more real to the film buffs than any existing human being. This is why cinephiles are spookier, on the whole, than music lovers or balletomanes. For they are creatures of the dark, getting off on the lives of others.

  

  Ian Buruma
  • Real
  • Characters
  • Imaginary

• A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

  

  Teresa Medeiros
  • Asks
  • Imaginary
  • Fishes