Tuque Quotes & Sayings

The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets threewise silverflamed, — Anthony Burgess

When I was a boy, I thought scent was contained in dewdrops on flowers and if I got up very early in the morning, I could collect it and make perfume. — Oscar De La Renta

The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty. — Emma Goldman

Women hold the keys to masculine behavior. Guys are inclined to take what they can get and be no more accommodating than they have to be. — James C. Dobson

The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.
The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this. — Idries Shah

Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's going to edit your work. It's so wide open. People just grunt and that's a song. You can kind of do anything. — Mirah

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul. — Aleksandar Hemon

The balls do not make a writer. — Aleksandar Hemon

Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. It is only this realization that can open to us the real nature of our duty, and of right action. — Thomas Merton

Man cannot choose his duties. — George Eliot

An electron is real; a probability is not. — Hans Christian Von Baeyer

Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi