Tooned Quotes & Sayings

Writing a novel mimics what we bring to our journey of life. God is the great editor who purges the faulty, the awkward, and all the bits that are just plain wrong, so the optimal story can finally emerge. — Denise M. Baran-Unland

In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,
any more than painting might do. They may both be additional pleasures, as well as conversation is, but are perfectly distinct notices; and cannot, with the least propriety, be said to mix or blend with the repast, as none of them serve to raise the flavor of the wine, the sauce, the meat, or help to quicken appetite. But music and painting both add a spirit to devotion, and elevate the ardor. — Laurence Sterne

Water is so friendly when you have it on your palms, but so evil when they have you on theirs. — M.F. Moonzajer

I don't just wanna be James Franco's little brother. — Dave Franco

Sometimes I don't like people. And, you know, it doesn't bother me. The hard ones are when you really like somebody, really respect somebody and they make a mistake. — Donald Trump

Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine. — Willa Cather

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators. — John F. Kennedy

Bad news is that you can control nothing but your thoughts. Good news is that with your thoughts you can control everything else. — Debasish Mridha

If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love. — Timothy Leary

It's such a silly little thing, the heart. — Ned Vizzini

Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and
place. — Oli Anderson

I had to work from a young age. — Giancarlo Esposito

Don't believe everything you repeat in your mind! — Maddy Malhotra

Our stations in life, our difference of cultures, the pain-laid men who raised us - forbid us to be us. They have brainwashed us. We feel we should believe the polarity between us. — Coco J. Ginger

The grand illusion of committed love is that we think our partners are ours. In truth, their separateness is unassailable, and their mystery is forever ungraspable. As soon as we can begin to acknowledge this, sustained desire becomes a real possibility. It's remarkable to me how a sudden threat to the status quo (an affair, an infatuation, a prolonged absence, or even a really good fight) can suddenly ignite desire. There's nothing like the fear of loss to make those old shoes look new again. — Esther Perel