Tonry Farrington Quotes & Sayings

I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home. — Claude Monet

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. — Heywood Hale Broun

What is delayed is not lost ... — Juliette Drouet

Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to. — Adam Ant

My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo. — Dikembe Mutombo

But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there. — Knut Hamsun

My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it. — Jock Sturges

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting. — Gaspard Ulliel

Government actually grew during the Reagan years. — Noam Chomsky

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help. — Bill Watterson

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones? — Will Rogers

If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones
Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly
Because it dissolves in water. — W. H. Auden

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of 'The West Wing.' We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it. — Jason Isaacs

Why, Andrew, why would it irritate me? Do you think that being loved by you is something to be ashamed of? I don't. — Andrew Ashling

I love America for an idea. The reality is important but ambiguous. In Senegal, there stands a building where slaves were stored before they were sent on to the New World. It was built in the same year as the American Declaration of Independence. I love America for the clear idea behind the cloudy reality. Without the idea, the joys of America would be mere accident, the ephemera tossed up by the hand of fate, to disappear in the wind. And what is that idea? It is the idea of hope, that grand, audacious idea that makes the Britisher blush with embarrassment. It may be an idea not everyone cares for, but it is one I need, I want. I love her for her thought, first, of where you're going, not where you're from; for her majestic optimism against the gray resistances of Europe, most pure in Britain, so that in America I feel like - I am - a sexual being. — Zia Haider Rahman