Aleksis Kiven Quotes & Sayings

The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming. — Simone De Beauvoir

A woman has the age she deserves. — Coco Chanel

UFO is a bucket of shit. — Gray Barker

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face. — Randall Cobb

But then Job was a man. Invisibility was intolerable to men. What complaint would a female Job dare to put forth? And if, having done so, and He deigned to remind her of how weak and ignorant she was, where was the news in that? What shocked Job into humility and renewed fidelity was the message a female Job would have known and heard every minute of her life. — Toni Morrison

It always seems to be important to have at least one person in the vicinity to hate. — David Foster Wallace

Courage is adversity's lamp. — Luc De Clapiers

Pixiophobia: a fear of Pixies.
I made this up, but believe me it should be a word because it sure is a legitimate fear. — Carrie Jones

The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside. He felt his way to the mattress on the floor, and he stretched out and cried in his bed, and the cars whizzing by on the highway only strengthened the walls of his loneliness. — John Steinbeck

An artist's work never leads anywhere except to the unknown. — Marty Rubin

When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place. — Shannon L. Alder

A breeze lifted off the ocean and several hundred notes from the wind chimes tinkled like ice shaken in silver cups. They altered the mood of the forest the way an orchestra does a theater when it begins tuning up its instruments. — Pat Conroy

One of the problems I see with these comics on television, particularly cable television, is, since you can say anything in terms of sex and scatological references and so on, therefore, you should do it. So they all limit themselves to these subjects and this vocabulary. My objection is that it is a lack of articulateness. Irreverence is easy, but what is hard is wit. Wit is what these comedians lack. — Tom Lehrer

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip? — Leonard Ravenhill