Totto Quotes & Sayings

Rhiannon finds me like that, in the selfless reading space that the mind loans out. — David Levithan

But since the time of Leibnitz, it is hard to find philosophers who stress relatedness in any way. There is Henri Bergson, and before him the romantics, and Marx with his talk of the brotherhood of revolution, and Martin Buber with his I and Thou, but by and large modern philosophy is about aloneness. We are forlorn, abandoned. — Stuart Miller

Nearer:breath of my breath:take not they tingling
limbs from me:make my pain their crazy meal
letting they tigers of smooth sweetness steal
slowly in dumb blossoms of new mingling:
deeper:blood of my blood:with upwardcringing
swiftness plunge these leopards of white ream
this pith of darkness:carve an evilfringing
flower of madness on gritted lips
and on sprawled eyes squirming with light insane
chisel the killing flame that dizzily grips.
Querying greys between mouthed houses curl
thirstily. Dead stars stink. dawn. Inane,
the poetic carcass of a girl — E. E. Cummings

The Devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape. — William Shakespeare

Drying her eyes, Mother said to Totto-chan very slowly, You're Japanese and Masao-chan comes from a country called Korea. But he's a child, just like you. So, Totto-chan, dear, don't ever think of people as different. Don't think, 'That person's a Japanese, or this person's a Korean.' Be nice to Masao-chan. It's so sad that some people think other people aren't nice just because they're Koreans. — Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Totto-chan regretted it with all her heart. Yes, that was it. What on earth made her beat the boy she liked so much? She Sharpened his pencils every day! But it was too late. She could never be his bride now.
"I'm going to go on sharpening his pencils all the same," Totto-chan decided. "After all, I love him. — Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Sane guys are boring. — Richelle Mead

When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak. — Katha Pollitt

I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie. — Heather Donahue

And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer. — Richelle Mead

highly recommend a safety video called, — Bryan McWhorter

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go. — Lara Flynn Boyle

Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster. — Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. — Molly Ivins

The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.
[Curb your enthusiasm,2016] — Michael Ruse

In the deep shadow of the porch
A slender bind-weed springs,
And climbs, like airy acrobat,
The trellises, and swings
And dances in the golden sun
In fairy loops and rings. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey