Ciji Ono Quotes & Sayings

In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros. — F. Sionil Jose

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes. — Fernando Pessoa

Tenderness is a virtue. — Oliver Goldsmith

Of all the soul divas, Gladys Knight was the one for me. Knight's always been about tone and heart, none of the big showboating or extraneous doodling. She nailed a melody and only played a little around the edges like Ma Staple. — Alison Moyet

remember, just because you're writing fiction doesn't mean that you can ignore facts. It is those details that make fiction compelling and, in many cases, very real for the reader. — Roy A. Teel Jr.

Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself. — Robin Williams

Over the course of human history, many items have briefly flourished as means of exchange, only to be demonetarized. Now, we have demonetarized money. — Markham Shaw Pyle

Him like a mild electric shock. No woman outside his family had touched him for two years. — Ken Follett

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that. — Dana Rohrabacher

One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure. — Doris Lessing

Architecture is art, nothing else. — Philip Johnson

You'll never catch a nudist with his pants down. — David Letterman