Kamalies Quotes & Sayings

It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all. — Rutherford B. Hayes

The sight of a tree at night full of glowing Clabbert lifestyles, while decorative, attracted too many Muggles wishing to ask why their neighbours still had their Christmas lights up in June. — J.K. Rowling

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it. — Esai Morales

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince. — Ted Demme

Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or an ethnic minority, or a weary old man. If anything, writing from the perspective of a child is probably easier for me. When I was a kid everyone thought I was so clever and precocious. Now that I'm adult, everyone thinks that I'm kinda odd and childish. — Patrick Rothfuss

As the data from the past decade clarify, there is no evidence that poverty causes crime but a great deal of evidence that crime causes poverty. By aligning themselves against the police, against commonsense tactics like stop and frisk, against metal detectors in public housing, against swift and certain punishment, and for a broad array of legal protections for accused criminals, liberals helped to aggrieve the lives of the poor and society as a whole. — Mona Charen

Newbies tend to demean one another. — Toba Beta

I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my heart easy to spare? — Jessica Sorensen

It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention. — Banksy

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary. — Peter Straub

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not. — A.S. Byatt

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best. — Carla Bley

I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to win the world championship. — Lewis Hamilton