Timbuctoo Quotes

#1. If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

Samuel Wilberforce

#2. This part of Alabama is swampy, with mosquitoes that could murder a buffalo, given half a chance, not to mention dangerous flying roaches and a posse of local rats big enough to haul a wagon train from here to Timbuctoo.

Truman Capote

#3. Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion , a truth , a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.

Eric Hoffer

#4. The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

W. H. Auden

#5. It was like school spirit back in high school. He didn't have it then, and he didn't have it now. To him, the biggest advantage of being queer was being queer.

Armistead Maupin

#6. People should be more like animals ... they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it.

Albert Einstein

#7. The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.

Dalai Lama

#8. He isn't bashful, but an asshole who'd sooner smash his glass because it was half full.

Gordon P. Bois

#9. A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile human body.

Walter Benjamin

#10. A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

Bernard Williams

#11. The broader your audience, the more people you have to appeal to.

Anne Heche

#12. I've waited almost 10 months for this revenge, I know I deserve it.

Sergio Martinez

#13. Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Stephen Levine

#14. Were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, I would have been raised by a single mom without my father in the household, this is our fight, and that is why I'm running for president.

Ted Cruz

#15. Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.

Maggie Nelson