Karmine Jacket Quotes & Sayings

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading. — Orson Scott Card

My background is in dance. No, I'm kidding. I was actually really uncoordinated as a child, when it came to dance, but I did play a lot of sports, and I do some break-dancing from time-to-time. No, I really don't. — Beth Riesgraf

You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It is because you want to win so badly. — Terry Francona

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be. — James M. Barrie

In order to awaken, first of all one must realize that one is in a state of sleep. And in order to realize that one is indeed in a state of sleep, one must recognize and fully understand the nature of the forces which operate to keep one in the state of sleep, or hypnosis. It is absurd to think that this can be done by seeking information from the very source which induces the hypnosis.
... One thing alone is certain, that man's slavery grows and increases. Man is becoming a willing slave. He no longer needs chains. He begins to grow fond of his slavery, to be proud of it. And this is the most terrible thing that can happen to a man. — G.I. Gurdjieff

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. — Billy Wilder

I happened to observe a mother lifting her eight-year-old boy in her arms. As she did so she laughed and said, "You're getting so big you'll be lifting me soon." It was the simplest of statements. Yet I felt something transiently touching about the scene merely because millions upon millions of mothers reaching back into the dawn of history must have said the same thing to their children at some time and because other millions will say it in the remote future long — Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes the boxes we're put in fit. Other times, we find ourselves shoved into places too confining for our growing sense of self. — Sarah Hackley

The fact is that when you admit that you can't blame anyone or anything else, you begin to blame yourself. The human mind gives up trying to find an executioner, but still it must blame someone. Anger that is not expressed tends to turn inward and, instead, attacks the very one who feels it. You move from anger and guilt into depression. — Kate McGahan

In Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door — Charles Dickens

I guess the question is, 'What do we need to let go of and what do we need to move on to?'" No — Spencer Johnson

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. — Don DeLillo

It's really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that's exciting. — John Scofield