Tuis Quotes

#1. The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing.
[Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba
Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

Ovid

#2. Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

Stephen Sondheim

#3. I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.

Charles McCarry

#4. The secret to desire in a long-term relationship

Esther Perel

#5. Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.

Wilfred Funk

#6. What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.

James Gray

#7. Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men.

Katie Couric

#8. As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath.

Don Winslow