Kankri Quotes & Sayings

Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can't be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people. — Steven Magee

Wealth creation is not a mathematical formula, as the truthseeking
quant geeks still want everyone to believe. In the end, their
lack of real-world experience and pride corrupted their mathematical
genius and destroyed them. You may be able to digitize a daVinci,
but that does not make it daVinci. Creating wealth is personal. It is
creating assets, creating value, or whatever act of self-perpetuation that
drives us to create a legacy. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff. — Annie Dillard

I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies. — Casey Affleck

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.
(Jane Austen) — Jane Austen

If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed. — Billy Corgan

She didn't want to die. She couldn't imagine wanting to die ... Death was for - for other people. — Agatha Christie

In life we don't always get what we want; hopes and dreams get washed away so easily, hearts are broken, chances are missed, and we always seem to end up right back where we started. — Rebecah McManus

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself. — Dave Gibbons

Where there is no experience the wise man is silent. — Barack Obama

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision and a task are the hope of the world. — Inscription On A Church Wall In Sussex England C. 1730

Rincewind stared, and knew that there were far worse things than Evil. All the demons in Hell would torture your very soul, but that was precisely because they valued souls very highly; evil would always try to steal the universe, but at least it considered the universe worth stealing. But the gray world behind those empty eyes would trample and destroy without even according its victims the dignity of hatred. It wouldn't even notice them. — Terry Pratchett

The gods wanted to create creatures who would worship them. First they made the animals, but they couldn't talk. Then the gods created people out of mud, but when it rained, they fell apart. Then the gods created people out of wood, but they had no feelings, so the gods washed them away in a big flood. Finally, the gods created people out of corn, and they turned out just right. — Sydney Salter

No," the mother told her. "It's too dangerous there".
A small incident, but when multiplied a hundred, a thousand times in a little girl's life, she learns that she's not as capable as a boy of handling life on the edge. She learns to hang back. — Sue Monk Kidd