Tonner Wonder Quotes & Sayings

The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality ... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it. — John Berger

They were just like the relations from whom I had fled as a girl. I couldn't bear them and yet they held me tight, I had them all inside me. — Elena Ferrante

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential. — Ray Stevens

Trials are not arbitrary. When I speak about them, I am referring to the mindful suffering.Man has come to his present development thanks to his hardships and trials.These are what prepare man for the Coming of Love. — Peter Deunov

As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing. — Tim Cahill

Yes, I have often battled Grief. / Both of us used our teeth. — Sherman Alexie

There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart - It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge, For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes. — Sylvia Plath

For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism. — Raymond Kelly

Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower. — Theodore Parker

He'd abandoned his usual outfit of black rap clothes or GI Joe cammies. He was wearing a brown leather jacket, a cream-colored Henley, faded jeans, and work boots. His hair, which had always been slicked back in a ponytail, was cut short. He had a two-day beard, making his teeth seem whiter and his Latino complexion seem darker. — Janet Evanovich

I always keep my head down, working, doing things, moving forward. That's what I've done all my life. Then you stop and realize what you've done. — Isaac Hayes

For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth. — Zora Neale Hurston

I'm so ... Heartsick. You took my insides and left me a little broken. — Caroline Hanson

It doesn't matter if Red hears my threats. He won't get close enough to do anything about it. I'll kill him before he's ever close enough for me to smell him. — Quoleena Sbrocca

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set. — Rudolph A. Marcus