Top 10 Tellegen Quotes
#1. [On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.
Dorothy Parker
#2. When you own nothing, it's hard to believe you have anything to lose.
Larissa Lai
#3. I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.
Charles Portis
#4. My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they have many pleasant colours and lustres To recommend them. Also the scent from them fills the room With sweetness of flowers and crushed grasses.
Amy Lowell
#5. Thousands are killed and injured every year by teenagers driving too fast or under the influence of drugs and drink ... others are killing [themselves] with alcohol or heroin overdoses.
Billy Graham
#7. There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.
Noam Chomsky
#9. It's your boy," she said. "Somebody done killed your boy." I heard Leroy's deep sobs coming from inside the house, and I saw Jimmy lose his breath. Just for a moment, I wanted to be alive again. They had loved me. I had been loved in this old world, and now love was tearing them apart.
Eric Arvin
#10. The feudal system of industry, under which industrial production was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets.
Friedrich Engels