Toksvig Quotes

#1. In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy and the one true secret of social success: how to not drive everyone around you crazy.

William Poundstone

#2. Sigh. Here's another fine woman that historians can't believe was real. Of course she was real. Not only is there a splendid Chinese poem called "The Ballad of Mulan", there is also n excellent cartoon by Disney.

Sandi Toksvig

#3. I always wanted to open a delicatessen in Jerusalem and call it 'Cheeses of Nazareth'.

Sandi Toksvig

#4. With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

Jane Smiley

#5. No, Finnick repeats. 'Because whatever happened in the past is the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance.' He eyes Peeta for a moment. 'Except maybe Peeta.'
Finnick knows then what Haymitch and I know. About Peeta. Being truly, deep-down better than the rest of us.

Suzanne Collins

#6. My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

Toots Thielemans

#7. Van Wort was fat and his name was Van Wort. With that combination, why would you pack your kid off to camp? Let him play with ladybugs in the safety of his own lawn.

Sam Lipsyte

#8. Let each of us examine his thoughts

Blaise Pascal

#9. Everyone's crazy except you and me.

Mark Frauenfelder

#10. Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision.

Judith McNaught

#11. Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers.

Geraldine Laybourne

#12. When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have men who would question you and see flaws in your plans, so long as you could control them. It was all about control.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. I like frogs. I am not crazy about their legs in a buffet, but I like their casual approach to life.

Sandi Toksvig

#15. Our town was small enough that I never developed a healthy fear of strangers. To me, they were exciting things, gift-wrapped and full of possibilities, the sweet smell of somewhere else wafting from them like perfume.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#16. The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

Muhammad Iqbal

#17. I used to look at Jinks and marvel at her smooth complexion, but over the years I have come to realise that she has been spared wrinkles by virtue of never having succumbed to heavy thought.

Sandi Toksvig

#18. Accept I can't change the past. I can only concentrate on the now and hope for the future.

Alexandra Ivy

#19. Mary was a famous fairground attraction but she doesn't really count as she rather famously turned out to be a monkey.

Sandi Toksvig