Tonry Law Quotes & Sayings

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far. — Fannie Hurst

I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule. — Ian Anderson

Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Socialism is a new form of slavery. — Alexis De Tocqueville

She looked up through a haze of pain. At the edge of the garden, a dark figure approached - the silhouette of a man whose eyes shone like miniature headlamps, blinding Reyna. She heard the scrape of iron against leather as he drew another arrow from his quiver. — Rick Riordan

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. — Leo Kottke

A little nonconceptuality can provide a much needed vacation. — Dalai Lama XIV

I am a Zen Buddhist - but that is not to be thought of as a religion in — Howard Fast

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods. — John Brunner

The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things. — Rudolf Christoph Eucken

English is my language because of the history, and what I try to do - and I did that in 'Carpentaria' in particular - is to write in the way we tell stories and in the voice of our own people and our own way of speaking. — Alexis Wright

The police pull up in back of my car and run my plates - they don't see you as you are; they see you through a racialized negative gaze. I think the best thing is not to internalize it too much, or it'll make you crazy because you know it's going to happen again. — Mark Bradford

Sahara's jaw set in a stubborn line familiar to him from her childhood. "You may carry his genes," she said, "but you are not and never will be Enrique's son." A passionate negation that vibrated with cold fury. "If you were, you wouldn't find pleasure in touching me with care, only in causing me pain." Pressing her fingers to his lips, she shook her head. "You're Kaleb. That is your identity. — Nalini Singh

True worship comes when we learn to close our eyes and focus only on Him. — Joel Balin

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, h but a desire fulfilled is i a tree of life. — Anonymous