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The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.


Toni Morrison

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TONI MORRISON Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
TONI MORRISON You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His ...
TONI MORRISON If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?'

'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world w...
TONI MORRISON Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't...
TONI MORRISON Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] ...
TONI MORRISON I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.
JAMILA WOODS Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
TONI MORRISON I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] ...
TONI MORRISON Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disabil...
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writin...
JUNOT DIAZ But it wasn't all bad. Sometimes things wasn't all bad. He used to come home easing into bed sometim...
TONI MORRISON It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend
TONI MORRISON Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic...
TONI MORRISON Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to ...
TONI MORRISON March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger."
UNKNOWN March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger."
WILLIAM MORRIS She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing some...
TONI MORRISON Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plu...
JOHN UPDIKE I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John ...
HILLARY CLINTON I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in m...
MOHSIN HAMID When I was in grad school, I had to admit I hadn't read Toni Morrison. My teacher, the novelist ...
SUNIL YAPA The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable.
BHAGAVAD GITA Rest time is the waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too ligh...
THOMAS PAINE The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lig...
THOMAS PAINE The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too ligh...
THOMAS PAINE I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by ...
THOMAS PAINE No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it wa...
TONI MORRISON “I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow braver by ...
MELGA AGUILLON I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by refl...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau...
BRET EASTON ELLIS What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal ...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.
JULIEN OFFROY DE LA METTRIE It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has cre...
BéLA BARTóK The miracle of all miracles is the christological incarnation. It presents to us something that is f...
ERNEST NKOMOTJE The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its militar...
KIM JONG-UN The human body is a strange & unreligious being,for it thrives on variety.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is impossible to imagine that humanity has suddenly become blind and has really lost the consciou...
WLADYSLAW ANDERS You can just be your self’s stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!
SORIN CERIN The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no ...
CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
MARY BAKER EDDY You can train your mental strength just like you train your body. If your body looks fit or ripped, ...
WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by ref...
THOMAS PAINE I am thinking about the past, I am living in the past but my body is in the present. Where am I? I m...
EPHDAN When a child is severely abused it forever is entrapped in its body as a child...the body matures, b...
CRISTABEL MICHAELS On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not t...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR The human body is like a machine,without adequate maintainance it can easily breakdown.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.
ANDRES INIESTA (Love) is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerf...
TONI MORRISON The body of the Word, then, being a real human body, in spite of its having been uniquely formed fro...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surf...
DAVE SIM The exchange has clearly demonstrated its robust strength as an independent business, delivering str...
CHRIS GIBSON When passion has wrecked the body in one life, it is stamped upon the seed atom. In the next descent...
MAX HEINDEL The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitu...
IRIS MURDOCH I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON You Americans. You suppress the body of its desires, and treat the heart as if it is a wild animal t...
LOUISA EDWARDS Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, ...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can...
JACK HERER You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
SEAMUS HEANEY The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the stre...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Vulnerability may seem like a weakness, but in truth, it is a strength for being able to show you ca...
KAILIN GOW I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.
ALEXANDER DUMAS The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitu...
IRIS MURDOCH It’s crucial to be able to gather enough inner strength to rise up from the ashes like the Phoenix...
SAHARA SANDERS Whether your mother is a novelist like mine or a third-generation military wife, the idea of a son o...
ELLIOT ACKERMAN A person’s real attitude can be seen when he is in danger.
VIKRANT PARSAI True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has...
MILAN KUNDERA As strange as it may seem, human bodies are transportation devices. You came out of your mother's bo...
ED BULEY God walked with humanity in the cool of the day and gave them the most difficult and hottest parts o...
JOEY TALLADINO Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying e...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chan...
FRANK DUFF I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'...
MORTAL You should know by now that love is never a weakness, Ares. Love is the mortal world’s greatest st...
GINA ARDITO As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and whe...
MAHATMA GANDHI When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
IMMACULEE ILIBAGIZA America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.
JOHN MCCAIN The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.
SUZANNE FARRELL Death is part of who we are. It guides
us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow...
INDIRA GANDHI Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When yo...
SIMONE ELKELES The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply t...
TRENT FRANKS It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. I...
DR. ALEX CARREL Loneliness gave me things that no one did. It gave me pain, It gave me strength to gather myself and...
SRINIVAS SHENOY When fringe groups gather, there is power in that.
BEN HOPKINS A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can bo...
INDIRA GANDHI We are talking about human rights, ... The first human right is to remain alive, and Israel is in da...
SHIMON PERES This is the Olympic Games and this is Italy. I took all my strength in my body and I did it.
ENRICO FABRIS If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.
MARTY RUBIN Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of anot...
JOYCE CAROL OATES A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded o...
V. VALE

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TONI MORRISON You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want...
TONI MORRISON Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
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TONI MORRISON He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have m...
TONI MORRISON If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the...
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TONI MORRISON You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you r...
TONI MORRISON Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
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TONI MORRISON Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to...
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TONI MORRISON In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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TONI MORRISON You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your e...
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TONI MORRISON Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destr...
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TONI MORRISON Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
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'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world w...
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TONI MORRISON She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; ...
TONI MORRISON Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the r...
TONI MORRISON Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wa...
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TONI MORRISON Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
TONI MORRISON It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISON Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder
TONI MORRISON He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISON You are your best thing
TONI MORRISON Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISON Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISON At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or eve...
TONI MORRISON And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream bo...
TONI MORRISON And the City, in its own way, gets down for you, cooperates, smoothing its sidewalks, correcting its...
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TONI MORRISON It's nice when grown people whisper to each other under the covers. Their ecstasy is more a leaf-sig...
TONI MORRISON I’m crazy about this City.

Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half....
TONI MORRISON the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is i...
TONI MORRISON Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets ...
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TONI MORRISON The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, d...
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TONI MORRISON In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard ...
TONI MORRISON Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the lo...
TONI MORRISON It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about ...
TONI MORRISON Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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TONI MORRISON Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whethe...
TONI MORRISON Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISON She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was no...
TONI MORRISON The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place...
TONI MORRISON Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't...
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TONI MORRISON No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it wa...
TONI MORRISON It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
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TONI MORRISON It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles...
TONI MORRISON I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just rem...
TONI MORRISON (Love) is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerf...
TONI MORRISON I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISON If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISON Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that...
TONI MORRISON All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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TONI MORRISON Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to ...
TONI MORRISON Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eigh...
TONI MORRISON Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where w...
TONI MORRISON There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take ...
TONI MORRISON As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer
TONI MORRISON And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISON If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. ...
TONI MORRISON If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to wri...
TONI MORRISON Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history conn...
TONI MORRISON florens would sigh then, her head on lina's shoulder and when sleep came the little girl's smiel lin...
TONI MORRISON What is the nature of Othering's comfort, its allure, its power (social, psychological, or economica...
TONI MORRISON Rebuffed from his fine feelings, Milkman matched her cold tone. "You loved those white folks that mu...
TONI MORRISON Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has...
TONI MORRISON All of us - all who knew her - felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beaut...
TONI MORRISON guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our o...
TONI MORRISON To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; ...
TONI MORRISON I have my own list of objections that I can peruse at my leisure, not least of which is an almost co...
TONI MORRISON No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that ...
TONI MORRISON For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must ...
TONI MORRISON It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a hum...
TONI MORRISON As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISON Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green...
TONI MORRISON He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. ‘You your best thing, Sethe....
TONI MORRISON But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISON This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. ...
TONI MORRISON I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one ...
TONI MORRISON Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the s...
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TONI MORRISON The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fr...
TONI MORRISON In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction tha...
TONI MORRISON But it wasn't all bad. Sometimes things wasn't all bad. He used to come home easing into bed sometim...
TONI MORRISON Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
TONI MORRISON Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other ti...
TONI MORRISON There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy...
TONI MORRISON I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you ca...
TONI MORRISON Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far ...
TONI MORRISON You your best thing, Sethe. You are.
TONI MORRISON you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactles...
TONI MORRISON In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the...
TONI MORRISON Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISON You looking good."
"Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
TONI MORRISON It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too. Fire an...
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON When warm weather came, Baby Suggs, holy, followed by every black man, woman, and child who could ma...
TONI MORRISON Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dange...
TONI MORRISON Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'

Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being ali...
TONI MORRISON Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISON They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lov...
TONI MORRISON Something that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISON Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If ...
TONI MORRISON if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away
TONI MORRISON There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this mo...
TONI MORRISON There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a livi...
TONI MORRISON That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, o...
TONI MORRISON Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the m...
TONI MORRISON Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.
TONI MORRISON Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying...
TONI MORRISON See? See what you can do? Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, never mind you born a...
TONI MORRISON Her passions were narrow but deep.
TONI MORRISON God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who ga...
TONI MORRISON And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we w...
TONI MORRISON What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The...
TONI MORRISON Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed raven...
TONI MORRISON We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISON ...the change was adjustment without improvement.
TONI MORRISON Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic...
TONI MORRISON We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don�...
TONI MORRISON Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
TONI COLLETTE I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
TONI BRAXTON How do you know which path you should take? Take one and it will tell you if you've chosen wisely. I...
TONI SORENSON Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.
TONI SORENSON Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one el...
TONI SORENSON All paths eventually lead home.
TONI SORENSON It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. ...
TONI SORENSON How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you.
TONI SORENSON Nature makes the best paths that leads to the best places.
TONI SORENSON ..And i can't get you out of my mind,
God knows how hard I've tried
TONI BRAXTON I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They&...
TONI COLLETTE The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
TONI COLLETTE Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe...
TONI TENNILLE I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to ...
TONI COLLETTE I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it c...
TONI SERVILLO My fears teach me courage. My weaknesses coach me to strength. My scars remind me not to make the sa...
TONI SORENSON I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
TONI BRAXTON I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche some...
TONI COLLETTE Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
TONI BRAXTON Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it.
TONI SORENSON Weight loss doesn't begin in the gym with a dumb bell; it starts in your head with a decision.
TONI SORENSON I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
TONI BRAXTON I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavou...
TONI COLLETTE The secret is not following the right path, it's following that right path to the end. Don't quit, m...
TONI SORENSON The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' albu...
TONI TENNILLE Over the last three years I've been broke, dumped, and pimped.
TONI BRAXTON People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with ...
TONI COLLETTE Take a discovery walk today to find what's missing in your life. There's peace in the whisper of the...
TONI SORENSON Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more t...
TONI TENNILLE It's the largest tropical storm we've ever had, ... It's engulfed the entire state. This is going to...
TONI JENNINGS I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the mom...
TONI COLLETTE After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts abou...
TONI COLLETTE Cameron and I actually do wear the same size, ... It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.
TONI COLLETTE Hello, sex on legs
TONI ALEO Discussions are ongoing, but we are not in a position to report any new developments.
TONI SIMONETTI I believe in nurturing the inner world.
TONI COLLETTE I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.
TONI COLLETTE Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-comin...
TONI BLAKE Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of m...
TONI COLLETTE