Kaisermania Quotes & Sayings

My annual goal is to read seventy-five books, which may sound like a lot. — Tony Reinke

A colleague of hers had discovered that the Biblical sentence found in John 4:7 contained all the sounds in nearly every known language. — Katherine Paterson

Girls get their boobs and forget they were ever so gutsy and smart. Boys, too, can display their own brand of clever and funny behavior, but let them get that first erection and they go complete moron for the next sixty years. For both genders, adolescence occurs as a kind of Ice Age of Dumbness. — Chuck Palahniuk

Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol. — Mel Lawrenz

As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men. — Og Mandino

If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that's worth talking about. — Jeff Bezos

Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he can step onto the page and burden you with his actual existence? Detective stories always have too many characters anyway. And characters mentioned early on but never sighted, just lingering offstage, take on an awful portentous quality. Better to have them gone. — Jonathan Lethem

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business. — Bill Gates

Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that. — Andrzej Wajda

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end. — Cecelia Ahern