Tenuta Quotes & Sayings

Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has led the police to resort to methods of detection and surveillance that intrude upon our privacy, including illegal search, eavesdropping, and entrapment. Indeed, the successful prosecution of such cases often requires police infringement of the constitutional protections that safeguard the privacy of individuals. — John Kaplan

A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?' — Gillian Jacobs

I live life what I consider to be normal. — Vijay Mallya

As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road. — Tom Brevoort

Imperfectios equal beauty. We are all imperfect. — Miley Cyrus

Wake Me Up when September Ends — R.J. Palacio

Anything that dims my vision of Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me, and I must, as a Christian, turn away from it. — J. Wilbur Chapman

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. — Ronald A. Fisher

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style. — William Shakespeare

Love Goddess in training. It could happen. — Judy Tenuta

If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance. — Gordon Allport

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist. — Judy Tenuta

I said I want to fuck your mouth, first with my tongue"-he licked her lower lip-"and then with my finger, and then with my cock. Maybe that will shut you up."

~Tiago — Thea Harrison

What do men want? Men want a mattress that cooks. — Judy Tenuta

My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, 'Just wait. — Judy Tenuta

The rats had gnawed a hole through the bottom panel. At least he assumed it was rats. Of course it was. What else could it be? For a moment, he conjured up an assortment of Lovecraftian creatures crouching on their haunches, waiting patiently in the dark just beyond the door, waiting to devour him like a side of fresh beef. He quickly held his imagination in check. — Gary Val Tenuta

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause. — Mahatma Gandhi

You can't get a body like mine in a bottle unless you push real hard. — Judy Tenuta

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. — Toni Morrison

I think. Therefore, I am. I think."
- Anonymous

I found this written in tiny letters in the grout between the wall tiles above a urinal in a restroom at the University of Washington, circa 1980. I don't know if Descartes would have approved but I thought it was brilliant. — Gary Val Tenuta

Judy, you don't know nothin' about the South. You don't even know the difference between the North and the South.'
I said, 'Oh yes I do. In the North, there's a cutoff age for sleeping with your parents. — Judy Tenuta

This guy says, "I'm perfect for you, 'cause I'm a cross between a macho man and a sensitive man." I said, "Oh, a gay trucker?" — Judy Tenuta

Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you ... — Judy Tenuta

I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain. — Judy Tenuta

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick. — Patti Smith

I'm half-Italian and half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself. — Judy Tenuta

How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit a suicide? — Judy Tenuta

[C]apitalism--democracy's sidekick — Laura Kelly