Teneros Quotes & Sayings

We wanted more. We knocked the butt ends of our forks against the table, tapped our spoons against our empty bowls; we were hungry. We wanted more volume, more riots. We turned up the knob on the TV until our ears ached with the shouts of angry men. We wanted more music on the radio; we wanted beats; we wanted rock. We wanted muscles on our skinny arms. We had bird bones, hollow and light, and we wanted more density, more weight. We were six snatching hands, six stomping feet; we were brothers, boys, three little kings locked in a feud for more. — Justin Torres

Sex spelled backwards is excess and that's how it should always be. — Chloe Thurlow

Sometimes, I felt like if I could just fold up into a small enough ball, my body would collapse on itself like a star, and I could supernova myself into a new existence. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

We are dominated by everything with which our self is identified. We can dominate and control everything from which we disidentify ourselves. The normal mistake we all make is to identify ourselves with some content of consciousness rather than with consciousness itself. Some people get their identity from their feelings, others from their thoughts, others from their social roles. But this identification with a part of the personality destroys the freedom which comes from the experience of the pure "I". — Roberto Assagioli

I believe, completely, that life is about connection; that nothing else truly matters. — Sally Brampton

Tobacco Shop') and compares his thinking to 'an overturned bucket' (in a poem dated 16 August 1934). If Soares thinks that 'Nothing is more oppressive than the affection of others' (Text 348), a Ricardo Reis ode (dated 1 November 1930) maintains that 'The same love by which we're loved/Oppresses us with its wanting. — Fernando Pessoa

The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive. — C. G. Weeramantry

Humane people don't start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries. — Jean-Luc Godard

How can the most cruel and despicable create something as breathtaking beautiful as this? — D.S. Wrights

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it. — Ambrose Bierce

Keep saying no to her,
Since she was a baby.
Keep saying no to her,
Not even maybe.

from "Why?" by the Byrds — David Crosby

If that was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me. — Ted Yoho

Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet. — William Joyce