Touront Quotes & Sayings

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. — Benjamin Disraeli

Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor. — Luke Evans

Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

A grateful heart is good medicine. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am a big fan of the electronic book. I hate to see the old bookstores close, but they have to reinvent themselves. I believe the First Edition bookstore will be the next thing. People will read electronically, then decide they want to own that book. The author will then be invited to the old bookstores to sign. I think books will always be with us, but they will fill a different need. — Nikki Giovanni

You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. [ ... ] That's the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you'll actually witness, that you'll participate in. Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it's Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering. — Bill Murray

It is as if the eye forces forms to communicate. — Carl Watson

Do you want to be with a man who has to be convinced to be with you? — Chloe Neill

This essay is intended to serve as a reminder that immense and threatening divisions in mankind can spring from differences between virtues as well as from envies and greeds. When the virtues on each part are largely inapprehensible by the other, the danger is heightened by Man's natural fear of what he does not understand, and his inclination to suppose it not worth understanding. To attack it easier than to study. There are also, in this case of China and the West, intense and complex cultural vanities on both sides to be taken into account: vanities largely inexplicable the one to the other... — Ivor A. Richards

Government should take management lesson from private sector. — Newt Gingrich

Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't have tattoos, I guess. — Alyssa Milano

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames. — Cathleen Schine

I love: the way her eyes spark when we're talking or when she's telling me something she wants me to know, the way she mouths the words herself when she's reading and concentrating, the way she looks at me as if there's only me, as if she can past the flesh and bone and bullshit right into the me that's there, the one I don't even see myself. — Jennifer Niven