Kamandalu Quotes & Sayings

'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?'
I don't suppose the water's changed at all.
You and I know enough to know it's warm
Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm.
But all the fun's in how you say a thing. — Robert Frost

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know. — Joan Rivers

It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it. — Terry Eagleton

This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll. — Al Arbour

We don't get to choose who we love. Or stop loving them when they're difficult. — Jessica Spotswood

...I had always believed prayer ought to be conducted on our feet rather than on our knees, since God seems in all other departments of life to require us to stand upright and account for ourselves. — Charles Frazier

I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me. — Tony Parsons

We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down the centuries, this spirit returns. — Dario Fo

I don't have to have talent. I just need to have auto-tune and be allowed to have the hottest track in the game, and my swag. — Spencer Pratt

To try to explain something as "I love it" and "It's fun" would be like describing the sunset over the middle of the ocean as "bright and pretty." It's just not that simple. — Tara Dakides

A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an adult can have a kind of mission. He can be an inspiration for the child's actions, a kind of open book wherein a child can learn how to direct his own movements. But an adult, if he is to afford proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars. — Maria Montessori

Children play at being great and wonderful people, at the ambitions they will put away for one reason or another before they grow into ordinary men and women. Mankind as a whole had a like dream once; everybody and nobody built up the dream bit by bit, and the ancient story-tellers are there to make us remember what mankind would have been like, had not fear and the failing will and the laws of nature tripped up its heels. The Fianna and their like are themselves so full of power, and they are set in a world so fluctuating and dream-like, that nothing can hold them from being all that the heart desires.
from a preface to
Gods and Fighting Men
by Lady Augusta Gregory — W.B.Yeats

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly. — Christopher Fry

When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh. — Friedrich Nietzsche