19450 Kershaw Quotes & Sayings

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture. — Norman Spinrad

She knew the old rule about crowd events in Nepal. If it was a religious event, those with the most fervor would be at the center of the crowd, and to take in the flavor of the event, you wished to get closest to that group; but if it was a political event or a bandh, locate the group with the most fervor and get as far away from them as you possibly can. — Joe Niemczura

An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out in slow inexorable burn that would one day crumble this empire to dust. -page 62 — Jennifer Lee Carrell

He said you could tell about a person not from what he believed, but by what worried him. — Chang-rae Lee

We are more powerful, more knowledgeable, better prepared than we think we ever are. — Joe Navarro

America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation. — Paul Broun

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind. — Mark Twain

Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect. So long as the writer is a woman who was once a whore and is moderately wealthy in her old age. — Roberto Bolano

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions. — Margery Allingham

I sensed a familiar presence behind me. A hand brushed my hair back, and Ranger leaned in to me and kissed me on the nape of my neck. — Janet Evanovich

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees. — Ron Suskind

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition — William James

A man who will not listen carefully to advice honestly given is a fool. Of course, a man who blindly takes any advice he receives is a bigger fool. — Tad Williams