Kafkangna Quotes & Sayings

Jokes are many things. 'Funny' is only one of them. — Melinda Chapman

There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. — Byron Katie

How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs? — Mango Wodzak

This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didn't want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself. — Sara Zarr

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. — Gustave Flaubert

She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind — Alessandro Baricco

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. — Laura Riding

In the early days of jazz, it was ensemble music: everybody playing all together. Nobody really stood out. — Terry Teachout

In becoming an icon, it is useful to die young. — John Updike

The ACLU's record, far from showing a momentary wavering from impartiality, is replete with attemps to reform American society according to the wisdom of liberalism. The truth of the matters is that the ACLU has always been a highly politicized organization. — William Anthony Donohue

When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of making art, was the only space that was mine alone, where I could be anyone and do anything, where just by using my head and my hands I could cry, or laugh, or get pissed off. — Kim Gordon