Quotes About Tonio

#1. He was so rapt in his thoughts that he did not hear anything much that Guido was saying, that lovely bubbling speech of Guido's when he was at last content.
Tonio allowed it to pass over him, and now and then he would give a little gracious nod.

Anne Rice

#2. When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

Brian Johnson

#3. Inspiration should be in direct correlation to the way you live. It shouldn't be something you strive to become. It should be the reaction to the journey you took to get there.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#4. You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?

Mario Cuomo

#5. Life doesn't come with four choices.

Linda Darling-Hammond

#6. Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Victor Hugo

#7. Bother the right man!" cried Miss Findlater, crossly. "I do hate that kind of talk. It makes one feel dreadful - like a prize cow or something. Surely, we have got beyond that point of view in these days.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#8. The sound circulated like an autonomous being whose tentacles needed to experience a sensitive awareness of the terrain.

Ondjaki

#9. All the elderly ladies whom Archer knew regarded any woman who loved imprudently as necessarily unscrupulous and designing, and mere simple-minded man as powerless in her clutches. The

Edith Wharton

#10. 'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.

David Wilkerson

#11. Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.

Neal A. Maxwell

#12. How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect?

Wolfgang Pauli

#13. Poetry is concerned not just with the meaning of experience, but with the experience of meaning.

Terry Eagleton

#14. Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you.

Robert Holden

#15. When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.

Johann Kaspar Lavater