Tuffy Quotes

#1. We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.

William Hazlitt

#2. Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

Terry Eagleton

#3. The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the book, I went to Google and searched for unsolved murders in Victorian London, and they basically popped out at me about halfway down the first results page.

Sarah Pinborough

#4. A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

Sri Chinmoy

#5. If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.

Richard P. Feynman

#6. Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out

Jane Fonda

#7. On the whole, people who are always going after more get trapped in the future. They never live in the present, never enjoy it, because their attention is always focused on something that's yet to happen.

A.G. Roemmers

#8. Not a very regal send-off for a prince." I laughed as the lions retreated into the bush again.
"That was me and Goma when I was little," said Jack, starting the car. "I was always chasing something, and she was always pulling me back.

Leylah Attar

#9. Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

Iris Chang

#10. Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel alive. They're also about betrayal.

Emily Browning

#11. A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditation

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#12. But if I die without trying again, I'm a coward. I don't mind having regrets about stuff I've done. It's the regrets about stuff I haven't done that bother me.

Poppy Z. Brite

#13. It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what have children to do with such things?

Joyce Carol Oates