Tornami Quotes & Sayings

My head and shoulders melted first, followed by my hips and knees. Before long I was a puddle, soaking into the pretty cotton prints. I drenched the quilt she never finished, rusted the metal parts of her sewing machine. I was pure liquid loss, then, for an hour or two. My grandmother, my grandmother. Gone forever, though I could smell her Chanel perfume on the fabrics. — E. Lockhart

A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them. — Michel De Montaigne

My mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when I was going to first grade. She said, "You're Bahamian and African-American on one side, and Russian-Jewish on the other. You're no more one than the other, and it's beautiful that you have all this. It makes your life all the more rich. But society will see you only as black." — Lenny Kravitz

Did you know that Lincoln liked popcorn, and oysters, and a good strong cup of coffee? — Joshua Wolf Shenk

He followed it down, in full flight now, the trees beginning to close him in, malign and baleful shapes that reared like enormous androids provoked at the alien insubstantiality of this flesh colliding among them. — Cormac McCarthy

There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation. — Alexander Kotov

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it. — Mark Twain

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary ... — Alberto Manguel

There's always new stuff, that's for sure. — Patti Smith

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before. — Mary Mapes Dodge

When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them. — Jerry Scott