Guirlandes Kerst Quotes & Sayings

The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers. — Louis L'Amour

You have tremendous flexibility in defining both the greater good and the greater community. If you don't succeed in this, then you will continue to pull that heavy wagon up the mountain, and despite the fact that you are pulling it, it will somehow run over your own foot. — Srikumar Rao

If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond. — Catfish Hunter

There was no room in his life for Marta, and none in her life for him; but it was a pity, all the same. — Josephine Tey

Why on earth people who have something to say which is worth hearing should not take the slight trouble to learn how to make it heard is one of the strange mysteries of modern life. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The dentist swiveled on his heels and disappeared, leaving me there to massage my jaw back into feeling after its brief, masochistic marriage to the top of my wooden desk. — Jonathan Lethem

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind. — Sara Sheridan

Soon the evening gloom would materialize, infect the fibre-filled air, drape itself over her bed, depress her from now till morning. — Rohinton Mistry

I'm a paranoid person. I really am. — John McAfee

...though it was too true that life as she is lived has a way of being curiously different from life as described by novelists. — Stella Gibbons

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going? — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period. — Big Boi

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived next door to me, and I frequented their house more than I did my own, because it had all those marvellous things in that that old ladies do have. And they had a piano, and I used to play around with that; they showed me how to read music and I used to play to them. — Richard Meale

Movements- driven by such unexpected need, fueled by such a relentless desire, and crashing into unimaginable possibilities. — K. Bromberg

To become a mother, I feared, was to relinquish your status as the protagonist of your own life. Your questions were answered, your freedom was gone, your path would calcify in front of you. And yet it still pulled at me. Being a professional explorer would become largely impossible if I had a child, but having a kid seemed in many ways like the wildest possible trip. — Ariel Levy