Tucket Quotes & Sayings

Each kiss was like biting into the richest darkest chocolate and pausing to savour the taste. — Sarra Manning

Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would cost about $20 billion. Let's just call that what it is: A material blasphemy of the Christmas season. — Jim Wallis

We know what wood is and what earth and stone are and that they have a color and texture, a smell and even a taste, but matter as a perceptible material substance independent of the nature of the wood, earth and stone composed of it seems incomprehensible. In order for us to regard a thing as real it must possess at least some distinctive physical qualities. We must be able to experience it as a physical thing before we can decide it is real. Matter as proposed by modern science, however, has no distinctive or definite physical qualities at all. Matter is simply some unimaginable stuff possessing no conceivable definition whatsoever. The concept of matter, then, proves to be just as elusive and abstract as the concepts of spirit, soul or the life-principle. — Ojo Blacke

My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company. — Mario Batali

Things that don't get better, get worse. — Ellen Stern

You have to know composition to be a good improviser. — Roscoe Mitchell

We depend on the Supreme Court to uphold the integrity of our government. — Frank Lautenberg

The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man's real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self.
Man's search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore,
when a man finds it, he finds a happiness, which does not come to an end. — Ramana Maharshi

The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done. — Barack Obama

True wisdom is gentle and relevant. It comes to us when we are ready to hear it through a conduit we perceive as safe and loving. — Danielle Boonstra

Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. — Henry Rollins

The secret of happiness is to enjoy the moment, without allowing unhappy memories or fear of the future to shadow the shining present. — Elizabeth Peters

The main affliction of our modern civilization is that we don't know how to handle the suffering inside us and we try to cover it up with all kinds of consumption. — Thich Nhat Hanh

This is going to be murder," Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. "Pure murder."
"I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few minutes ago you were ready to give up. Now you're talking about killing him."
"I meant it the other way."
"Oh. — Gary Paulsen

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine. — Arthur Schopenhauer