C G Rek A K Z Pkorban Quotes & Sayings

Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards. — Joseph Wheelan

The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended. — George MacDonald

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction. — Simon Hoggart

I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure. — Mona Simpson

Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified. — Stuart Wilde

All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration it creates — Mordecai Richler

His blade of human knowledge, natural astuteness particularized by long association with cases in the police courts, had been tempered by brief immersions in the waters of general philosophy. — James Joyce

When I was a young man, and the Russkies were going to blow us all to Kingdom Come, we were told we'd have a four-minute warning. I'm talking Ford, Carter, Reagan Days. Four minutes, I used to wonder ... What would I do in four minutes? Boil an egg, have sex, telephone my enemies to have the final word, listen to Jim Morrison, hotwire a car and drive three blocks? — David Mitchell

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. — Jules Renard