Kalkin House Quotes & Sayings

From the '70s and '80s, the following songs immediately spring to my mind as candidates: "The Battle of Evermore," "Spirit of Eden," "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," "Close to the Edge," "In Your Eyes," "Thick as a Brick," "Cinema Show," "Echoes," and "The Killing Moon. — Bradley J. Birzer

You do as much research as you can for any project. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible. — A.A. Gill

Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field. — Winfield Scott Hancock

The figures of the past go cloaked.
They walk in mist and rain and snow
And go, go slowly, but they go. — Wallace Stevens

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea. — Lee Brice

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution
let there be God! — Henry Adams

Marian's eyes absolutely blaze. To meet them is to have a shock of contact as if they were electrically charged. Now you see? You wondered what was in whale's milk. Don't you know now? The same thing that's in a mushroom spore so small you need a microscope to see it, or in gophers, or poison oak, or anything else we try to pave under or grub out, or poison. There isn't good life and bad life, there's only life. Think of the force down there, just telling things to get born! — Wallace Stegner

It is tempting to look back at Bear's people from the perspective of this modern world and see them as changeless and pure, authentic people in ways impossible for anybody to be anymore. We need Noble Savages for our own purposes. Our happy imaginings about them and the pure world they occupied do us good when incoherent change overwhelms us. But even in those early days when I was first getting to know Bear and his people, I could see that change and brutal loss had been all they had experienced for two centuries. — Charles Frazier

Fond and protective equals love? I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry. — Rachel Hartman

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get. — Frank Carlucci

I feel him pause. On my vagina. Because he's touching my vagina as I accuse him of being into examining college girls. Help me. — Jana Aston

Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary. — Jason Biggs