Toujour Quotes & Sayings

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury. — Gloria Steinem

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now? — Alan Watts

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. — Erica Jong

To love what you do. You must do what you love. — E'yen A. Gardner

It doesn't have any effect on your life. What do you care?! People try to talk about it like it's a social issue. Like when you see someone stand up on a talk show and say, How am I supposed to explain to my children that two men are getting married? ... I dunno. It's your shitty kid. You fuckin' tell 'em. Why is that anyone else's problem? Two guys are in LOVE and they can't get married because you don't want to talk to your ugly child for five fuckin' minutes? — Louis C.K.

The bar was meant to look like a place where Hemingway might have hung out in the Bahamas. A stuffed swordfish hung on the wall, and fishing nets dangled from the ceiling. There were lots of photographs of people posing with giant fish they had caught, and there was a portrait of Hemingway. Happy Papa Hemingway. The people who came here were apparently not concerned that the author later suffered from alcoholism and killed himself with a hunting rifle. — Haruki Murakami

Home is wherever I'm with you — Anonymous

A Corsai, a Malchai, and a Sunai walk into a bar -
Everyone groaned, including August. — Victoria Schwab

Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example ... — James Woods

Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole. — Meat Loaf

Well, then, why do we need all these books?" the boy asked.
"So that we can understand those few lines," the Englishman answered, without appearing really to believe what he had said. — Paulo Coelho

I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited. — John Travolta

She wasn't afraid yet. It took a lot to terrify someone who played in time and space like a bathtub. — Maggie Stiefvater

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle. — Ivan Klima