Toccara Quotes

#1. The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

Dennis Prager

#2. You see more sitting still than chasing after.

Jonathan Franzen

#3. I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.

Robert Walser

#4. The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

Alfie Kohn

#5. Margaret," she told me time and again, "you may be anything you wish, so long as you're never boring.

Karen Hawkins

#6. Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

Kahlil Gibran

#7. Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.

Sister Parish

#8. My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Jonathan Lethem

#9. When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

Deborah Norville

#10. I fed my yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female yak. I made it my pet after that.

Brian Blessed

#11. Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.

C.J. Cherryh

#12. ~ You know young Francis Weston? He that waits on the king? His people are giving out that you're a Hebrew... Next time you're at court, take your cock out and put it on the table and see what he says to that.
~ I do that anyway, if the conversation flags.

Hilary Mantel