Toni Morrison Quote

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.

الموسيقى بالنسبة لفرانز هي الفن الأكثر قرباً من الجمال الديونيسي الذي يقدّس النشوة. يمكن لرواية أو للوحة أن تدوّخنا ولكن بصعوبة. أما مع السمفونية التاسعة لبيتهوڤن، أو مع السوناتة المؤلفة من آلتيْ بيان...

Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.

His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and then rather serenely. The overall effect was overwhelmingly unapolog...

I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy,...