Toch Quotes

#1. Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music.

Lawrence Weschler

#2. We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God's truth, the universe at once began to exist.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. The whole scene was indecent, mad. It smacked of murder and assassination.

Charles Bukowski

#4. I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.

Ernest K. Gann

#5. That is why diplomats smile: it is not hypocrisy - it is a sort of metaphysical awareness of the human impossibility of their task.

Charles Malik

#6. People create their own little hells. They don't need my help

Carol Plum-Ucci

#7. One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

Israel Gelfand

#8. When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.

Sharon Olds

#9. I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.

Mark Bittman

#10. We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)

Georgia O'Keeffe

#11. Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

Marie Corelli

#12. I can see the war that's coming and I can see the after-war, the food-queues and the secret police and the loudspeakers telling you what to think.

George Orwell

#13. There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

Charlotte Dacre

#14. It's no fun picking on you Louis; you're so guilty, it's like throwing darts at a glob of jello, there's no satisfying hits, just quivering, the darts just blop in and vanish.

Tony Kushner

#15. But I suppose our childhoods are seeds inside of us that plant roots forever, even when we're certain their life cycles have long since been extinguished. How long will it take for my own roots to loosen their grip?

Allison Winn Scotch

#16. Know how to chameleon our way through the day.

Brene Brown

#17. Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there. But it's never exact. So, looking at it another way, every word you say is a lie.

Peter Gould