Kam Chancellor Quotes & Sayings

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder. — David Maraniss

It was crazy, what young people believed was possible, what so many earnest twenty-three-year-olds took for granted about the rest of their lives. — Emma Straub

The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile. — Ted Allen

A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes. — Baltasar Gracian

I love you, Rachel." "I know." She smiled and ducked down to kiss along my jaw. "And I love you too." One — Molly McAdams

Paper is more patient than people. — Anne Frank

Have you noticed,' she asked, straightening the counting frames to her liking before closing the cupboard doors and turning toward him, 'that at church when the clergyman is giving his sermon everyone's eyes glaze over and many people even nod off to sleep? But if he suddenly decides to illustrate a point with a little story, everyone perks up and listens. WE were made to tell and listen to stories, Joel, It is how knowledge was passed from person to person and generation to generation before there was the written word, and even afterward, when most people had no access to manuscripts or books and could not read them even if they did. Why do we now feel that storytelling should be confined to fiction and fantasy? Can we enjoy only what has no basis in fact? — Mary Balogh

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke

Did you really think I'd let you go without reminding you why you fucking fell in the first place? — Emily Snow

I was angry. I wanted blood in the dawn. — Bernard Cornwell

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint. — Simon Newcomb

Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises. — Plutarch

I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn't work as well as it does. — Hanya Yanagihara

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character. — John Lydon

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother ... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too. — Anna Quindlen