Auntee Quotes & Sayings

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul. — Carl Jung

Any military force should be dictated by the vital national security interests of the United States. And if and when we use force, we should use overwhelming force for a clearly stated objective. And then when we're done, we should get the heck out. — Ted Cruz

Hatred is always at war with love that keeps growing. — Toba Beta

Every bad thing starts from creation. — Wu Shanzhuan

In a little while they were kissing. In a little while longer, they made their slow sweet love.
The iron bed sounded like a pine forest in an ice storm, like a switch track in a Memphis trainyard, like the sweet electrical thunder of habitual love and the tragical history of the constant heart. Auntee finished first, and then Uncle soon after, and their lips were touching lightly as they did.
The rain was still falling and the scritch owl was still asleep and the dragonflies were hidden like jewels somewhere in deep brown wet grasses, nobody knew where.
Uncle rolled away from his wife and held onto her hand, never let it go, old friend, old partner, passionate wife. — Lewis Nordan

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population. — Satyajit Ray

I thought you said she couldn't touch anyone." James is staring at me now, suspicious.
"She can't."
"Except for you?"
"Right. Except for me."
And Warner.
"She can't touch anyone except for you."
And Warner.
"Right."
"That seems awfully convenient." James narrows his eyes. — Tahereh Mafi

In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister. — Princess Margaret

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked. — Douglas Trumbull

She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of her. That she was worth nothing. And still a look from him could make her tremble with mingled hatred and longing. It was like poison in her blood, to which Jem was the only antidote. — Cassandra Clare

I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed." — Karyn Kusama

Today is the best day to begin your life again and plan the rest of your life. — Debasish Mridha

City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second. — Dana Goodyear

In the rain forest, no niche lies unused. No emptiness goes unfilled. No gasp of sunlight goes untrapped. In a million vest pockets, a million life-forms quietly tick. No other place on earth feels so lush. Sometimes we picture it as an echo of the original Garden of Eden - a realm ancient, serene, and fertile, where pythons slither and jaguars lope. But it is mainly a world of cunning and savage trees. Truant plants will not survive. The meek inherit nothing. Light is a thick yellow vitamin they would kill for, and they do. One of the first truths one learns in the rain forest is that there is nothing fainthearted or wimpy about plants. — Diane Ackerman