Tehuti's Quotes

#1. I also know how ruthless and reckless young women can be when their ovaries overheat. My darling little Tehuti's Gonads had caught fire at the first sight of him. I could think of no feasible way to quench the flames.

Wilbur Smith

#2. The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#3. When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

John Burroughs

#5. After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#6. You always want your films to go as far as they can.

Sally Hawkins

#7. Updating passwords and changing them all the time is something I'm involved in.

Christian Slater

#8. People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

Laura Miller

#9. When I began to direct, I began to understand and realise that everything that I'd learnt, both in music and dance and in the theatre, seemed to come together as a director, and I began to enjoy it. And slowly I let the acting go.

George Ogilvie

#10. We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth

Barbara Boxer

#11. A crack of lightning beamed from the sky, leaving a hole in the ground. Smoke elevated from it. Within seconds, I was covered in rain, drenched, unsteady, and cold, I half stumbled, half crawled back towards my car.

Elle Klass

#12. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America, where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. We hadn't learned yet, that there was no such thing as an empty canvas.

Janet Fitch

#13. Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Juvenal