Taki Quotes & Sayings

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country. — Taki Theodoracopulos

So far the only good things I have seen to come out of this recent technological renaissance are video-chatting with your grandparents, online dating, and being able to attend traffic school on your computer. — Amy Poehler

Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it. — Jill Scott

Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now. — Yoshikani Taki

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure. — Regina E. Dugan

Like most men, I am consumed with desire whenever a lesbian gets within twenty feet. — Taki Theodoracopulos

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom. — Taki Theodoracopulos

I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs. — Taki Theodoracopulos

So I went instead and tasted Taki's new white wine. Spiridion! what a wine ... like the blood of a dragon and smooth as a fish ... — Gerald Durrell

Christ could be born a thousand times in Galilee - but all in vain until He is born in me. — Angelus Silesius

No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, don't ever, ever, ever lose hope! — Jim Yackel

Do you remember what I told you that first time at Taki's? About faerie food?"
"I remember you said you ran down Madison Avenue naked with antlers on your head", said Clary, blinking silver drops off her lashes. — Cassandra Clare

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language. — Taki Theodoracopulos

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything. — Taki Theodoracopulos

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean. — Anne Lamott

Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, MAESTRO
DI COLOR CHE SANNO. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see. — James Joyce