Kaitaia Hot Quotes & Sayings

History happens," said the Doctor. "Even when I'm not around."

"Only by accident," said Kadiatu... — Ben Aaronovitch

In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim. — Xela Ffonrims

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind. — Bridget Riley

(2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already had the water, he just had to discover jars). At one point I laid each chapter out on the terrazzo floor, eighty-three in all, arranged them like the map of an imaginary city. Some of the piles of paper, I imagined, were freestanding buildings, some were clustered into neighborhoods, and some were open space. On the outskirts, of course, were the tenements
abandoned, ramshackled. The spaces between the piles were the roads, the alleyways, the footpaths, the rivers. The bridges to other neighborhoods, the bridges out ... In this way I could get a sense if one could find their way through the book, if the map I was creating made sense, if it was a place one would want to spend some time in. If one could wander there, if one could get lost. — Nick Flynn

In his hands, I am again a mockingjay. — Suzanne Collins

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. — Richard M. Nixon