Tooled Quotes

#1. A door jumps
out from shadows,
then jumps away. This
is what I've come to find:
the back door, unlatched.
Tooled by insular wind, it
slams and slams
without meaning
to and without meaning.

Li-Young Lee

#2. The soft throb and glow roused in my breast by the gilt letters of four or five different languages winking at me from scores of handsomely tooled bindings - the sight of so much knowledge so beautifully presented - swiftly flamed out.

Ross King

#3. It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Bertolt Brecht

#4. We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.

George Papandreou

#5. It's hard thinking about Iraq at night when I'm dancing with transvestites in the afternoon.

Jerry Springer

#6. You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

David Ansen

#7. Praise the bridge that carried you over.

George Colman

#8. Love is the law of life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

Criss Jami

#10. We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Jodi Picoult

#11. Your recipe, darling, is so tasty, and you sure can stir your pot.

Bob Marley

#12. You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

Frank Shorter

#13. Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.

Joe Vitale

#14. As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

Dorothy L. Sayers