Kalpakis Quotes & Sayings

The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best space available and are so arranged and tended that they are seen to their advantage, each in relation to the other. Every plant, of whatever shape or size, should be chosen not only for its individual merits but for its power to enhance the charms of neighbouring plants by contrast or combination in foliage or in flower colour. — Penelope Hobhouse

Yet there was also something slightly spooky about them. Norton could never understand how men with advanced scientific and technical training could possibly believe some of the things he had heard Cosmo Christers state as incontrovertible fact. — Arthur C. Clarke

He got the impression she might be a bit fucked up, but that had always been his type. The kind that would break your headlights, egg your house, spray paint ASSHOLE on your garage door. — C.D. Breadner

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness. — Candace Bushnell

World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same. — Amit Ray

Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy. — Ken Cohen

Katie purred in pleasure as she licked the beating vein in Jared's neck. — Jodie B. Cooper

To make a collaboration succeed there can be no visible contusions or abrasions. For the collaboration to succeed, the relationship must be nourished and survive. That is absolutely essential for a collaboration to succeed. — Van Dyke Parks

I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at. — M. J. Hyland

I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug. — Al Gore

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man. — Jean Harlow

I'm not scared, if that's what you're wondering. The moment of death is full of sound and warmth and light shooting away, arcing up and up and up, and if singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing ...
The rest you have to find out for yourself. — Lauren Oliver

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked. — Stacey D'Erasmo

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. — Edward O. Wilson