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Simon Toyne Quotes

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: February 29, 1968

Topics

Good Effort Stop Way Planet Would

An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.

Home Child Night Long Late Phone

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Learning Woman Me Writing Bad Say

If I had to live on record sales, I'd be pushing up the daisies.

John McLaughlin

Live Sales Up Pushing Record Had

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

Stokely Carmichael

Struggle Racism People Organization

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

Growing Up Down Growing London Up

It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.

I Am Me Israel Irritate Does Am

I don't very much distinguish when I'm working. I do what I like to do: the time changes and my activity changes.

Time Changes Time Changes Working

Me and Kanye work awesome together. He's a creative man, I'm a creative man, we put our ideas together, it's like the perfect formula.

Work Together Man Creative Me Ideas

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Christy Mathewson

Sports Baseball Evil Luxury Look

Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with.

Christian Louboutin

Good Style Feet Enough You Look

I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.

Book Way Head Second Margins Pack

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

Pierre Corneille

Feelings Authority True Reason Rule

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