Tenuta Quotes

#1. For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me.
Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. Healing is the return of the memory of wholeness. Healing, health, whole and holy all mean inclusiveness. Body, mind, spirit, environment, relationships, social interactions are all one wholeness, and you're a part of that one wholeness.

Deepak Chopra

#3. This guy says, "I'm perfect for you, 'cause I'm a cross between a macho man and a sensitive man." I said, "Oh, a gay trucker?"

Judy Tenuta

#4. I'm half-Italian and half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself.

Judy Tenuta

#5. C. diff can sometimes be life-threatening, even in healthy young adults.

J. Thomas LaMont

#6. Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.

Je Tsongkhapa

#7. What do men want? Men want a mattress that cooks.

Judy Tenuta

#8. I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

Judy Tenuta

#9. How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit a suicide?

Judy Tenuta

#10. I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.

Judy Tenuta

#11. Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Etty Hillesum

#12. My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, 'Just wait.

Judy Tenuta

#13. I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

Gary Johnson

#14. Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power ... Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#15. Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil ...

Hippocrates

#16. Judy, you don't know nothin' about the South. You don't even know the difference between the North and the South.'
I said, 'Oh yes I do. In the North, there's a cutoff age for sleeping with your parents.

Judy Tenuta

#17. Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you ...

Judy Tenuta

#18. We should use all the tools the gods gave us," Juliette said. "Except for the one you wield, this power to make others fear.

Hugh Howey

#19. I think. Therefore, I am. I think."
- Anonymous

I found this written in tiny letters in the grout between the wall tiles above a urinal in a restroom at the University of Washington, circa 1980. I don't know if Descartes would have approved but I thought it was brilliant.

Gary Val Tenuta

#20. Rap-so many words, so little said.

Keith Richards

#21. You can't get a body like mine in a bottle unless you push real hard.

Judy Tenuta

#22. Love Goddess in training. It could happen.

Judy Tenuta