Tomo Quotes & Sayings

Jun was a calm lake; Tomo was a waterfall. And I was the water, swept every which way, unable to shape myself into what I wanted. — Julie Kagawa

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded. — Tyne Daly

Angela Carter ... refused to join in rejecting or denouncing fairy tales, but instead embraced the whole stigmatized genre, its stock characters and well-known plots, and with wonderful verve and invention, perverse grace and wicked fun, soaked them in a new fiery liquor that brought them leaping back to life. From her childhood, through her English degree at the University of Bristol where she specialised in Medieval Literature, and her experiences as a young woman on the folk-music circuit in the West Country, Angela Carter was steeped in English and Celtic faerie, in romances of chivalry and the grail, Chaucerian storytelling and Spenserian allegory, and she was to become fairy tale's rescuer, the form's own knight errant, who seized hold of it in its moribund state and plunged it into the fontaine de jouvence itself.
(from "Chamber of Secrets: The Sorcery of Angela Carter") — Marina Warner

To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good. — Sakyong Mipham

Drawing is the honesty of art. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer. — Lanny Bassham

The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company. — John D. Rockefeller

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue. — Jonathan Swift

It's getting harder just to feel alive. — Oliver Sykes

Tomo: You see, it's only the boobcage that I'm lacking. My only flaw. That's why I harp on you.

Kagura: Huh? Lacking to be what?

Tomo: To be my ideal woman.

Kagura: Ideal? Who's your ideal woman?,

Tomo: ... Fujiko Mine from "Lupin III".

Kagura: WHAT!? — Kiyohiko Azuma

Nah, Dad, I'm good. Please leave me in this hotel bedroom with my handsome boyfriend. And several of his relatives, and a very sharp weapon."
"Clearly I went badly wrong somewhere when raising you," said Dad. "Well, best to do down before Tomo gets into the vodka. — Sarah Rees Brennan

You can't force your will with the universe. You just have to trust how things unfold. — Wendy Wunder

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world. — Julia Roberts

Lasting and strong relations cannot be built on short-lived interests. A credible partnership is inconceivable without shared values and commitment to the same ideas. — Serzh Sargsyan

Don't try to be hip or cool. Being open and honest about what you like is the best way to connect with people who like those things, too. — Austin Kleon

They want to talk to you tomorrow."
"Tomo ... " Chase choked on the word. "As in the day after today?"
"Is there any other kind? — Adrienne Wilder

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits. — Vanessa Paradis

Do you get the feeling that they're talking about someone else other than an article?"
Kami stared at her fork, lying forlornly askew on her plate. "I don't know what you could mean! You are talking crazy!"
" They are talking about boys," Dad told Tomo and Ten. " I believe your mother may have concerns about Kami and a Lynburn boy. Possibly in a tree. Potentially k-i-s-s-i-n-g. I couldn't say. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Sakaki: " ... Why can't we just talk it over ... ?"
Tomo: "You can't talk to cats. — Kiyohiko Azuma

Life's a pitch, as the old woman said. She couldn't pronounce her 'b's. — Karl Ove Knausgard

You're bad at climbing trees," Tomo whispered.

"I'm bad at climbing trees when I'm on fire, yes," Kami said. "Not my sport. — Sarah Rees Brennan