Tony Gonzales Quotes

#1. Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

Richard Dawkins

#2. The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.

John Ciardi

#3. Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

C.J. Cherryh

#4. Taste is like a sense of humor. I never met a person who didn't think they had one.

Max D. Adams

#5. When I get to my room, the first thing I do is punch the button that operates the blind over the window. The room dims. Good. I want darkness. ~Amy

Beth Revis

#6. One of the great ball-givers in the United Kingdom is Nicholas Parsons.

Derek Nimmo

#7. I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

George Galloway

#8. I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

Pearl S. Buck

#9. Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift ... The hangover comes the day after.

Joyce Brothers

#10. Then I reached down into myself and managed to say, 'you should celebrate, your birthday should be celebrated, because the world's a better place with you in it.' May you continue to pile on the years, but with more pleasure from now on.

Helen Simpson

#11. Hate is no respecter of race - as apparently neither is stupidity.

Christina Engela

#12. Wolfram," Dan mused, a far-off look in his eye. "I've heard of that from somewhere." Amy was skeptical. "Are you sure you're not thinking of Wolfgang?

Gordon Korman

#13. As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.

Peggy McIntosh

#14. The most #happy is he to whom #ALLAH has given a good #wife.

Ali R.A

#15. I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

L. Frank Baum