Taketa Williams Quotes & Sayings

Havana was a woman who had once been renowned for her beauty until hard times had soured her. Her hand had gotten heavy with makeup application: her necklines had crept down; her beauty was tainted with vulgarity. But sometimes when she was alone, after she'd taken off her makeup, she danced in her garden, bare-faced and barefoot, to an old bolero, and the old elegance appeared, normal as a Tuesday evening. — Julia Cooke

I'm always careful," said Praline, and he was, though he had to admit it never made much difference. — Marshall Thornton

My brother is a screenwriter. He likes to say, 'I like to take on a genre when it's dying, because then people are ready for you to shake it up a little bit.' — Mark Waters

Rules are rules was stuffed into him from the crib like he was a Thanksgiving turkey. — James Marshall Smith

In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy. — Max De Pree

Knowledge is very vital in life's transformation and transition — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I am a Christian, you know, Julia.'
So am I. But I'm not above staying out of jail any way I can. — Ann B. Ross

I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. — Andy Warhol

Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry afterwards because their investigation by the said method did not furnish an actual demonstration. But it is of course easier, when we have previously acquired by the method, some knowledge of the questions, to supply the proof than it is to find it without any previous knowledge. — Archimedes

I want him to be my white knight. I want him to save me from me. — Harper Sloan

If it had lips, we'd feel closer to it. All we need are eyes and lips, apparently, and we think we can say hello. I don't think I realized that before, how much we need the world to look like us. — David Vann

I'm no genius, but I'm smart in spots, and I stay around those spots. — Tom Watson