Toncho Tique Quotes

#1. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Sellotape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose.

J.K. Rowling

#2. We have misunderstood our confusion when we think there is an answer to it. The confusion is not a result of questions that are too hard, but rather a questioner who is disintegrating. Confusion is the introduction to true intelligence.

Steven Harrison

#3. The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.

Virginia Woolf

#5. That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. [Capitalism assumed] that from the beginning all men are equal. If that were so everyone would be equipped with the same working power, the same education and, above all, the same economic assets ... each person would [then] have only himself to blame if he did not succeed.

Knut Wicksell

#7. A general must be a charlatan.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. [I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

Ross Wetzsteon

#9. You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

Penn Jillette

#10. Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back.

Robert A. Taft

#11. New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.

Lawren Harris