Quique Quotes

#1. Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears.
[Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]

Plautus

#2. My job, as I see it, is to give you a window into another world and another story, and then to be as graceful as I can so that you don't feel my work or the editor's work or the lens or the light or anything.

Victor Levin

#3. Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.

Susan Block

#4. There's always a fundamental misery that's with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don't know what it is about me, but even though I'm happy on the surface, there's something there, I guess. So, it all comes from wherever it comes from. I really don't know where that is.

Don McLean

#5. stronger than mountains.
a place where my heart
feels the safest-
underneath his shirt.

Sanober Khan

#6. There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

Susie Orbach

#7. Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.

Peter McWilliams

#8. Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.

Lillian Hellman

#9. He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.

Patrick Suskind

#10. Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.

Ferdinand Marcos

#11. Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

Muddy Waters

#12. I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.

Vladimir Nabokov

#13. Our anti-crisis policy is directed to internal demand support, social security of citizens and creation of new jobs. Like many other countries, we are reducing taxes on production, investing money in the economy. We are optimising state expenses.

Vladimir Putin

#14. Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there.

Jo Bonner

#15. You shouldn't miss people who don't miss you ...

Alex Flinn

#16. What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?

Bruce Lansky