Goehring Rozencwajg Quotes & Sayings

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. — Desmond Tutu

Now I know that there's no such thing as the truth. That people are constantly misquoted. That news organizations are full of conspiracy (and that, in any case, ineptness is a kind of conspiracy). That emotional detachment and cynicism get you only so far. But for many years I was in love with journalism. I loved the city room. I loved the pack. I loved smoking and drinking scotch and playing dollar poker. I didn't know much about anything, and I was in a profession where you didn't have to. I loved the speed. I loved the deadlines. I loved that you wrapped the fish. You can't make this stuff up, I used to say. — Nora Ephron

Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions. — Julian Barnes

If you don't feel the pointed things in life, you'll soon take the soft ones for granted. — John Everson

A book is a collected thoughts and lessons in one place, a quote is a lesson which is learnt. — Deyth Banger

I imagined I had discovered a new word. I rise up in bed and say, "It is not in the language; I have discovered it. 'Kuboa.' It has letters as a word has. By the benign God, Man you have discovered a word! ... 'Kuboa' ... a word of profound import.
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Some minutes pass over, and I wax nervous; this new word torments me unceasingly, returns again and again, takes up my thoughts, and makes me serious. I had fully formed an opinion as to what it should not signify, but had come to no conclusion as to what it should signify.
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Then it seems to me that some one is interposing, interrupting my confab. I answer angrily, "Beg pardon! You match in idiocy is not to be found; no, sir! Knitting cotton? Ah! go to hell!" Well, really I had to laugh. Might I ask why should I be forced to let it signify knitting cotton, when I had a special dislike to its signifying knitting cotton? — Knut Hamsun

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately. — Nate Silver

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist. — Ramana Maharshi