Tones and I (Toni Watson) Quotes

There is no necessity in this world that requires you to have an absurd amount of money.

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• I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Competition

• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Art
  • Nature

• At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Culture
  • Question

• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

  Beck
  • Inspiration
  • Record

• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Die
  • Cancer
  • Said

• The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Inspiration

• Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Sympathetic

• Hemingway was a jerk.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Jerk
  • Hemingway

• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Religion
  • Learn

• When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • World
  • Man
  • Car

• I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Bored

• Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • People
  • Live
  • Simple

• A leader is a dealer in hope.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Hope
  • Leadership
  • Leader

• This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Man
  • Find
  • Perfection

• And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Tears
  • Outcast

• 'We choose our lovers for their flaws, you know,' Mel said. 'People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.'

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • People
  • Good
  • Bored

• To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.

  

  Agatha Christie

• You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said, I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one. (p.158)

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • God

• I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for.

  

  Claire McCaskill

• At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

  

  David Crystal
  • Time

• And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Friends
  • Remain

• With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.

  

  James Wolcott

• Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Food
  • Health

• There is no necessity in this world that requires you to have an absurd amount of money.

  

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