Karamah Quotes & Sayings

You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on the fragments in hobnailed boots, but you are mistaken. It would be a genuine pleasure. By an odd coincidence I brought a pair of hobnailed boots with me!' So saying, and recognising a good exit line when he saw one, he strode out, and after an interval of tense meditation I followed him. (Spode to Wooster) — P.G. Wodehouse

I have a fleet of Rimowa Topas aluminum suitcases! They're all covered in stickers from around the world. — Chris Benz

The long soft life is what I feel I'm settling into and the only question is how deadly it will turn out to be. But — Don DeLillo

Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise. — John Rae

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories. — Daniel B. Shapiro

Khaemwaset's eyes remained on the riverbank as the green confusion of spring glided by. Beyond the fecund, brilliant life of the bank with its choked river growth, its darting, piping birds, its busy insects and occasionally its sleepy grinning crocodiles, was a wealth of rich black soil in which the fellahin were struggling, knee-deep, to strew the fresh seed. — Pauline Gedge

Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think and be believed in a close-up, as much as anything else. — Andy Serkis

What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer? — Anne Rice

They seal the subway change-booth guy up inside this thing with bullet-proof glass, closed in on all sides, it's like some kind of Houdini torture tank of doom. How do you breathe in there? It looks like if you put your hand over the change slot, you could suffocate him in thirty seconds. — Jerry Seinfeld

Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible. — Squeak Carnwath

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave. — Nadeem Aslam

The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil - it is merely a restatement of the mystery - and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by psychiatrists, social workers, and police officers, who daily encounter its force. — Janet Malcolm

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery. — Hermann Hesse