Kakonikos Quotes & Sayings

Study your strengths; then decide how hard you want to work — Martha Stewart

It was always about the future of writers, and about the way writers are treated in the future, and I think that was really hurtful to a lot of people in my position who had 160 people who depended on them to get this over with. So there was a lot of pain in it, and in that sense it will never be worth it, but I do think it was important. — Edward Allen Bernero

I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse. — Loren Eiseley

Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around. — Richard Russo

As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person? — Octavia Spencer

I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their natural habitat, and it's not always pretty. — Neil Cross

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name. — Giacomo Leopardi

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. — George Saintsbury

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air. — Johnny Miller

For a long time, my life has not been quote-unquote normal. And I'm OK with that, because what I'm trying to do is something that's above and beyond, that not very many people in America or the world have achieved at all. So, I don't mind that my life is so hectic and crazy. — Mariel Zagunis

All that mattered in life, that someone loved you even though you had faults. — Pepper Phillips

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing. — Gracie Allen

If you set your story in Rome, Ireland or Sheboygan, for that matter, go there. If you're broke, set it in the town where you live, or where you grew up. — Lynn Flewelling

Reality is what resists. — Bruno Latour

I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation. — Carol W. Greider