Kalivoda Quotes & Sayings

You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. — George Mikes

Nobody can be rich and stupid for more than one generation. — Romano Prodi

Good things come in small packages. — Aesop

I think it's a great thing to hear the author reading. I've listened to CDs of Cheever and Updike reading their stories and Hemingway. To hear what their voices were like is amazing. Whether they're reading well or not, it's great to listen to the intonation and the beat of the guy who wrote the story. — T.C. Boyle

With an open heart you achieve more than with any theory and philosophy. — Helena Kalivoda

When the road is straight do not look for a detour. — Helena Kalivoda

If you cannot be aware of who you are, you can start with being aware of who you are not. — Helena Kalivoda

Do not see others as your example, as that can hold you back. First, find your own inner calling and follow that. — Helena Kalivoda

You don't have the right to complain about your life if you're not willing to change it — Tori Toth

If you do not believe in miracles they cannot happen. — Helena Kalivoda

When the answer comes do not brush it away.
Utilize it, as when the answer is available but not used, what's the use of receiving your answer? — Helena Kalivoda

Always be yourself.
There is nothing else you can be. How can you be not yourself? How could you be something else than what you are? — Helena Kalivoda

The Lurking Fear:
Shrieking, slithering, torrential shadows of red viscous madness chasing one another through endless, ensanguined condors of purple fulgurous sky ... formless phantasms and kaleidoscopic mutations of a ghoulish, remembered scene; forests of monstrous over-nourished oaks with serpent roots twisting and sucking unnamable juices from an earth verminous with millions of cannibal devils; mound-like tentacles groping from underground nuclei of polypous perversion ... insane lightning over malignant ivied walls and demon arcades choked with fungous vegetation ... Heaven be thanked for the instinct which led me unconscious to places where men dwell; to the peaceful village that slept under the calm stars of clearing skies. — H.P. Lovecraft