Kahills Quotes & Sayings

Don't be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement. — Walter Schloss

By degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty of mind: his praise and notice were more restraining than his indifference. I could no longer talk or laugh freely when he was by, because a tiresomely importunate instinct reminded me that vivacity (at least in me) was distateful to him. I was so fully aware that only serious moods and occupations were acceptable, that in his presence every effort to sustain or follow any other became vain: I fell under a freezing spell. When he said 'go', I went; 'come', I came; 'do this', I dit it. But I did not love my servitude [ ... ]. — Charlotte Bronte

Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws. — Erin McCarthy

For me, I've worked hard for people to think I'm funny. — Nikki Cox

The most and best of us depend on others; we have to live either among friends or among enemies. — Baltasar Gracian

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil
and he will not stay loyal to him
for he is also destined to become a master. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Compassion is the highest moral value, the noblest human feeling, the purest creature-love. It is the extreme social expression of the divine soul of man. Because he is able to share his feelings, where both are in reality connected in harmony by the presence of this soul in each one.
One consequence of this habit of compassion is that an immense understanding of human nature fills his entire being. — Paul Brunton

she was standing upon the brink of the pit of hell and throwing in snowballs to lower the temperature. — Upton Sinclair

Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together. — Stana Katic

You go through different stages when you're working on the music in film. At least, I do. You have a temp score, so you have music from other people, usually from other movies, to give you a sense of what the mood is supposed to be, what the atmosphere is. — Duncan Jones

Smoking eats.. YOU. — Vikrmn

Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles? — Paul Lockhart

Just be where you are. That is the only way to get where you're supposed to go. — Laurie Viera Rigler

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket. — Hank Snow