Hofstadter Books Quotes & Sayings

I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

You're a superCILIOUS cock SUCKER. You know that."
"IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE. — Giorge Leedy

It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away. — Sue Monk Kidd

Girl, have you any thought what your eyes mean?
You must have stolen them from some dead queen.
O little empty laughing soul that sings
And dances, tell me
What do your eyes mean? — Omar Khayyam

Every team doesn't fit every person's style of play. — Rajon Rondo

Friendship needs no words. — Dag Hammarskjold

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me. — B.B. King

By choosing to be kind instead of cruel, we can break the karmic chain of reacting to violence with more violence, contributing to a more peaceful future for everyone. — Sharon Gannon

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem. — Kelly Osbourne

People die out for gold and seed. But not me, I want a forged heart, not craved greed. — Abhijit Haldar

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. — Dave Eggers

When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments. — Victor Hugo

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else ... — Eric Maisel

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular — Richard Steele