Truxton Quotes

#1. I went to school with a guy named Truxton. He and I played football together, and he knocked me out once because he's bigger and strong than I am.

Henry Bromell

#2. Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Abraham Verghese

#3. You needn't try to bully me, young man," said that octogenarian with spirit, "settin' there spoilin' your stomach with them nasty jujubes.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#4. If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

Natalie Portman

#5. More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.

Sonya Hartnett

#6. It quickly becomes apparent that in the gray area between jazz, R&B and soul, Tony Adamo is one of the top voices.

Scott Yanow