Tomukun Quotes & Sayings

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters. — Gus Van Sant

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose. — C.S. Lewis

I'm just a regular mother who's trying to save lives and be the best human being I can be. — Cindy Sheehan

I'm a big believer in winging it. I'm a big believer that you're never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I'm always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary. — Anthony Bourdain

Even if we wanted to remake higher education," assert professors and administrators alike, "we don't think there is anything that can replace what we already have." Of course, the fact that in the past everyone claimed "this time is different," does not rule out the possibility that this time really is different. — Richard A. Demillo

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting. — Yoko Ono

These days, nearly everyone claims to be democratic. I have even heard it claimed that the Chinese Communist Party is democratic. 'Capitalist', by contrast, is a word too often used as a term of abuse to be much heard in polite company. How do the institutions of the democratic state and those of the market economy relate to one another? Do corporations play an active part in politics, through lobbyists and campaign contributions? Do governments play an active part in economic life, through subsidies, tariffs and other market-distorting devices, or through regulation? What is the right balance to be struck — Niall Ferguson

'Frankenstein' is a work rich in possible meanings, so the horror-show interpretation is as valid as any. — Dave Morris

And at least 95% of it was was totally outdated. — Jeff Kinney

This room is not well adapted as a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a portion of our carpet. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Our mind has a mind of its own. — Lauren Handel Zander

But I think it will bring you something besides this, something that is the knowledge of real strength in art: not that you should imitate the works of these men; but their artistic spirit, their artistic attitude, I think you should absorb that. — Oscar Wilde