Tonoscope Quotes & Sayings

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle. — Diana Gabaldon

For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story. — Mariah Nelson

I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City, — Tom Ridge

The Nile is mine; I made it, — Joel Richardson

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. — Robert Hass

Tick Tock, The sun fell down; Ding Dong the moon took a peek, Ring Ding, It's Harmonizing my Insanity — Whitney Smith

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe

It was a strange way of killing, not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope, through eighteen years! — Emily Bronte

Do not seek recognition or gratification from man - serve the Lord. He knows how to reward everyone — Sunday Adelaja

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. — Ben Kingsley

As one might guess, I was easily roused by the grosser habits of the human body--toilet business not least of all. The very fact that other people moved their bowels filled me with awe. Any function of the body that one hid behind closed doors titillated me. I recall one of my early relationships--not a heavy love affair, just a light one--was with a Russian man with a wonderful sense of humor who permitted me to squeeze the pus from his pimples on his back and shoulders. To me, this was the greatest intimacy. Before that, still young and neurotic, just allowing a man to listen to me urinate was utter humiliation, torture, and therefore, I thought, proof of profound love and trust — Ottessa Moshfegh

It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

I have a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my hotel door. It's time to go to "Don't Disturb". It's been "Do Not" for too long. We should embrace the contraction. — Mitch Hedberg