Berke Khan Quotes & Sayings

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way - then because they also have depression, I think they're more in touch with human suffering. — Nick Flynn

I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day. — Louise Hay

Excellence is a way of life. — Bohdi Sanders

The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon — Nikita Khrushchev

Politicians have a lot to deal with these days. It's a different world. You know who I feel bad for? Arab Americans who truly want to get into crop dusting. Could be their life long dream,
and every time they ask for a pamphlet, all hell breaks loose. — Brian Regan

I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 13 years ago-crawling along, miles under the speed limit, feeling the weight of my daughter's future resting in my hands. I think about the pledge I made to her that day: that I would give her what I never had-that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father. I knew that day that my own life wouldn't count for much unless she had every opportunity in hers. — Barack Obama

of life she'd seen during the wee hours was an orange tabby that showed up every morning around three o' clock. It would dig through — Ernie Lindsey

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains. — Bill Bryson

She fought back the panic and tears when she realized Quinn had said she couldn't go to the village. "Why? Why can't I return to the village?" Quinn met her gaze. "There's nothing of it left to return to. — Donna Grant

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten. — Alison Lurie

A superhero spliced criminals from victims. In Gowanus things tended to be more mixed up. — Jonathan Lethem