Kanosen Quotes & Sayings

...none live less the spark — Kurt Brindley

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely — Arnold Bennett

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up. — Sharon Olds

Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives, how we depend on others and others depend on us, our outlook will change. We'll begin to see 'others' not as somehow distant from us, but as people we are in touch with, people close to us; we will no longer feel indifferent to them. — Dalai Lama

I asked once why we kept it if it was useless, and she told me that remembering the past is never useless. — Gennifer Albin

Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story. — Meg Wolitzer

I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading. — Jason Mewes

Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn't he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamster's cage was clean, I'd be happy to oblige. — Janet Evanovich

discombobulation — Larry Crane

You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking. — Ruth Reichl

PAROLLES Just, you say well; so would I have said. — William Shakespeare

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit. — Mark McMorris

God receives none but those who are forsaken, restores health to none but those who are sick, gives sight to none but the blind, and life to none but the dead. He does not give saintliness to any but sinners, nor wisdom to any but fools. In short: He has mercy on none but the wretched and gives grace to none but those who are in disgrace. Therefore no arrogant saint, or just or wise man can be material for God, neither can he do the work of God, but he remains confined within his own work and makes of himself a fictitious, ostensible, false, and deceitful saint, that is, a hypocrite — Martin Luther

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless. — Bram Cohen

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system. — Jim Yong Kim