Tonka Quotes & Sayings

People who mock rap and say, "I don't like it" should go and check out Kanye [West] in the studio rapping, or Marshall, Eminem, when he's in the studio. It's a phenomenon. Don't knock it until you've seen it. It may not be your cup of tea, but don't ridicule it. — Elton John

A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus. — Charles Darwin

I love solitude. I love being alone. People are loud, and overwhelming and too mundane. They talk of the weather, and taking out the trash, and their shiny new toys that are nothing more than meaningless trophies in their empty lives. People are afraid of solitude. They're afraid to be alone. They're afraid of their thoughts. — Ali Blythe

I was deliberately southern African. Not in a good or easy way. There is no getting around the fact that there had been so much awful violence to get me here; my people had engaged in such terrible acts of denial and oppression; I so obviously did not look Africa; and yet here I still was. — Alexandra Fuller

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing. — Natalie Portman

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London. — Alex Winter

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know. — Ben Horowitz

It's the ego, not your soul which progresses when your passion turns into an obsession. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

Trust me, today not even my Timex could take a licking and keep on ticking. Give me a Tonka truck and I'll squash it with my ink pen. (Taryn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Reggie made him feel like he was nine years old and out for dinner with his family at the Ponderosa Steak House and he had run into his French teacher and his mother invited her to dine with him.
Reggie made him feel like he was sitting in a public bathroom stall and someone had come into the bathroom and began singing a song about what a stinky bastard he was while he was in there sweating it out.
Reggie made him feel like someone had taken the red Tonka fire engine he had always wanted and painfully corkscrewed it down the front of his jeans.
Reggie made him feel like the ice cream man had just rolled by and all his dead grandparents were mooning him out the truck window. — Jonathan Goldstein

My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up. — Howard Graham Buffett

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. — Amiri Baraka

Yeah I'm in that Tonka color of Willy Wonka — Nicki Minaj

Renfield, my ass. What I had on my hands was a Van Helsing. — Jordan Castillo Price

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different. — Michael Bassey

I'm lucky to have worked with all the people that I have, and I really love what I do, and that is very important, too. — Emily Alyn Lind

True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round. — Laurence Sterne

And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night ... You, only you, will have stars that can laugh at night ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words of an ancient mystery: adventavit asinus, / pulcher et fortissimus. (Translation: The ass arrives, beautiful and most brave.) — Friedrich Nietzsche