Tui Allen > Tui's Quotes

“Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship,
Yet she sailed softly too:
Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze -
On me alone it blew.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“She danced so curving, lissom,
like the laughter of the song.
She sent resounding into spaace
and down the ages long.”
― Tui Allen, Ripple

“Ansel Adams: "It is horrifying that we must fight our own government in order to save the environment.”
― Jo Marshall

“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
― Lillian Hellman

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe