Karkouti Factor Quotes & Sayings

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime. — Frederick Lenz

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy. — Wael Ghonim

Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself. — Mason Cooley

Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class. — Ian Schrager

Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria. — Todor Zhivkov

You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I have this couch and I have this life and ... is this going to be my prison? — Lynn Shelton

Holy Moses, if it's his natural scent, then he needs to bottle that spicy fragrance up, call it Orgasm, and sell it to the masses. — Elle Kennedy

Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly
concerned with hitting his page count, telling good stories, and
keeping his family fed. Not pursuing some aesthetic ideal - to seek
that motive in Kirby's work was, he suggested, misguided. I happened to be holding the original artwork to the Devil Dinosaur #4 double-splash, which I turned around and showed Eisner - who took a moment, and said something uncharacteristic: Okay, I might be wrong. — Glen David Gold

It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked. — Anna Wickham

Anybody can be a runner ... We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport. — Bill Rodgers

Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. — John Dryden

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world. — Hugh Walpole

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time. — Salman Rushdie

The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed. — Margaret Landon