Kaleka Milwaukee Quotes & Sayings

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My favorite thing to do is watch her sleep, when she's at total ease, not stressing about her imperfections - imperfections I find perfect. — Nancee Cain

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is Life itself, it is an insane way to live. — John C. Parkin

I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people. — Colbie Caillat

And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must be longer than for other men, since for them it is a void of promise, and from its dawn the moments steadily accumulate without any subsequent partition among offspring. — Marcel Proust

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat. — Ray Romano

The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phaenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions. — Isaac Newton

Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund — William Shakespeare

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic. — Michael Emerson

I'm struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum. — Carl Sagan

President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs. — John Sununu

Discipline sets you free. — Pravin Agarwal

I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create - or guarantee - existence. Hence, my compulsion to make "lists." The things (Beethoven's music, movies, business firms) won't exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names.
Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province. — Susan Sontag