Kamprad Stiftelse Quotes & Sayings

I used to be that person who read two 400-page books a week. Now I carry around a book with me everywhere I go to try to remember what it feels like to feel that connection within the pages because I can't concentrate to read further than a paragraph, or remember it, for that matter. Every time I see someone engrossed in a novel, it's bittersweet, because I miss what it is like to get lost in the written word. I just want to be able to read like that again. — Unknown

I was a Valley girl; I hung out, and through a photographer friend. I met Peter Douglas, who was one of Kirk Douglas's kids. He introduced me to Sam Spiegel. — Theresa Russell

It comes down to a choice between the Little Sisters and Big Brother, and I'm going with the Sisters. — Jeb Bush

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. — Joseph Brodsky

The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency? — Abraham Joshua Heschel

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors ... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate. — Pablo Neruda

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations. — Peter Hoeg

The more you do the right thing, the harder it is to do the wrong thing. — Maria Ressa

I believe in aging gracefully. — Tatjana Patitz

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Paint me perfect poetry. — N'Zuri Za Austin

Woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium ... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art. — Cynthia Ozick

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational. — Daisy Ridley