Taskeen Ko Quotes & Sayings

The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to give them their own museum. You don't even know who these artists are - you can buy them at garage sales, antique stores and places like that. They're brilliant because they were done with the intention of being great, but the artist sort of made a wrong turn. Some of them are hilarious and I can't get enough of them. — Jennifer Coolidge

I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose ... — Francois Rabelais

He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it. — Khalil Gibran

The Fates seldom forget the bargains made with them, or fail to ask for compound interest. — Edith Wharton

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression, — K'wan

It wasn't the footman she was afraid of - it was those he was parroting. Alfie was the sort of dim-noll who never had his own thoughts but borrowed other people's. — Ellen Renner

Eden, yeah, she was definitely a morning glory: as pretty as a flower, with the strength of a weed. — Mia Sheridan

Nadya Zelenin and her mother had returned from a performance of Eugene Onegin at the theatre. Going into her room, the girl swiftly threw off her dress and let her hair down. Then she quickly sat at the table in her petticoat and white bodice to write a letter like Tatyana's.
'I love you,' she wrote, 'but you don't love me, you don't love me!'
Having written this, she laughed.
She was only sixteen and had never loved anyone yet. She knew that Gorny (an army officer) and Gruzdyov (a student) were both in love with her, but now, after the opera, she wanted to doubt their love. To be unloved and miserable: what an attractive idea! There was something beautiful, touching and romantic about A loving B when B wasn't interested in A. Onegin was attractive in not loving at all, while Tatyana was enchanting because she loved greatly. Had they loved equally and been happy they might have seemed boring.
("After The Theatre") — Anton Chekhov

My investigative technique mostly consisted of going through the list of interested parties and making as much noise as possible, until the culprit lost his patience and tried to shut me up. — Ilona Andrews

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen. — Mason Cooley

My wits supply, sir, what my sword cannot always command. — Emmuska Orczy

To the servant of God ... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time. — St. Catherine Of Siena

It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future. — Charles R. Swindoll

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood. — Ruben Blades

ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple, and it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way. — Barack Obama