Toebosch Antiques Quotes & Sayings

In some countries, pertaining to the opposition qualifies you as official enemy of the state and by that designation the state is in its right to defend itself — Bangambiki Habyarimana

'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons. — Ben Mendelsohn

Imagine, I said, what could happen if English continues to grow as it has. Maybe one day it will be the only language left to learn. If that happens, I concluded, it will be the greatest intellectual disaster that the planet has ever known. — David Crystal

Hold everything very carefully unless it is your lover's back. Then, become metal, become teeth, do not gentle yourself for any man. Do not change for the ones who think that
you should be softer, less mouth, less voice. You do not owe regrowth to anyone but yourself. When they begin to ask for you to shape yourself around them, leave. Shut the door firmly. Do not look back. — Azra Tabassum

It's probably those lactose-intolerant freaks. We all know there's nothing cool about intolerance. — Caprice Crane

There's a kind of ear music ... a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page. — Allan Gurganus

I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot of shows don't have a third act. They have an endless second act, and then they find out it's their last year and often have to hustle to invent a third act, but they were never necessarily organically meaning to begin with. — Nic Pizzolatto

The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment. — Agnes Repplier

Things put in the wrong place have found a new place. — Marty Rubin

an atom, and the resulting detonation blinded them all. — Jason Gurley

Harvard has enough panegyrists without me. — John Updike

Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron. — Andy Borowitz

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work. — Nick Earls

Man is even as steel, the essence of which is hidden: through admonition and explanation, good counsel and education, that essence will be brought to light. If, however, he be allowed to remain in his original condition, the corrosion of lusts and appetites will effectively destroy him. — Baha'u'llah