Kaiosama Quotes & Sayings

Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents aren't there. — Mark O'Donnell

Perhaps there is to be found in Pastrana the key to something which happens in Spain more frequently than is necessary. Past splendor overwhelms and in the end exhausts the people's will; and without force of will, as can be seen in so many cases, by being exclusively occupied with the contemplation of the glories of the past, they leave current problems unsolved. When the belly is empty and the mind filled with golden memories, the golden memories continually retreat and at last, though no one goes so far as to admit it, there is even doubt whether they ever existed and there is nothing left of them but a benevolent and useless cultural residue. — Camilo Jose Cela

He first selected the smallest one ... and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.' — William Makepeace Thackeray

The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging. — Mo Ibrahim

In Bible-story journeys, ain't no journey hopeless. Everybody finds what they suppose to find. — William H. Armstrong

Nothing is irreparable in politics. — Jean Anouilh

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon. — George Eliot

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge. — Mary Renault

China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power. — Iqbal Quadir

Angry Girl has no cavity. She has teeth. — Kirsty Eagar

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. — Roald Dahl

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable. — Paul Broca

Love is a fire that burns unseen,
a wound that aches yet isn't felt,
an always discontent contentment,
a pain that rages without hurting,
a longing for nothing but to long,
a loneliness in the midst of people,
a never feeling pleased when pleased,
a passion that gains when lost in thought.
It's being enslaved of your own free will;
it's counting your defeat a victory;
it's staying loyal to your killer.
But if it's so self-contradictory,
how can Love, when Love chooses,
bring human hearts into sympathy? — Luis Vaz De Camoes

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different. — Mohsin Hamid