Karijini Quotes & Sayings

My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that poetry, the telling images, the brevity. I want to hear it in my own work as well as in the poetry I read. However, I think I'm generally more forgiving of other poets than myself. — David Starkey

The brontosaurus had thirty-ton body and a two-ounce brain. The anatosaurus had two thousand teeth. Triceratops had a helmet of filled bone seven feet long. Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms and teeth like six-inch razors and it was elected President. It ate everything - dead meat, living meat, old bones - — John Updike

People regard art too highly, and history not enough — John Irving

You know, without your cloak of burning rage, you almost look like a girl," he teases with a wink at me. — Kayla Krantz

I always tried to be correct, not politically correct. — Lee Kuan Yew

Every week in a small town is very different. Something is going on. — Emily Rose

I will find a way -- or make one. — Hannibal

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead. — Philip Sheridan

Our understanding of life has only been enriched by the discovery that living flesh is composed of molecular clockwork rather than quivering protoplasm, or that birds soar by exploiting the laws of physics rather than defying them. In the same way, our understanding of ourselves and our cultures can only be enriched by the discovery that our minds are composed of intricate neural circuits for thinking, feeling, and learning rather than blank slates, amorphous blobs, or inscrutable ghosts. — Steven Pinker

So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?'
Tally to Peris — Scott Westerfeld

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths. — Anatoly Karpov

Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher. — Amarillo Slim