Karpati Quotes & Sayings

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things. — Pauline Kael

The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor. The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise. Odors of distant countries and times steal from the red leaves, the swelling ridges of vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold. — Robert Aris Willmott

Afflictions are the steps to heaven. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

Fairies use flowers for their charactery. — William Shakespeare

If one's interest is not in some global question about the possibility of knowledge, but about some particular mechanism or inferential tendency, this fact about our evolutionary origin is of no use at all in addressing questions about reliability. — Hilary Kornblith

True success cannot be achieved until you have experienced failure — Brian A. Leslie

A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial. — Philo

The disgust of distinguished people for snobs who want to force themselves upon them, the virile man has for the invert, the woman for every man who is too much in love with her. — Marcel Proust

A strong, authentic, compelling voice is the expression of identity, guided by vision, and achieved through mastery. — Todd Henry

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. — Samuel Richardson

triangle of my mons, — Cari Silverwood

Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again. — Marcus Aurelius

When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten. — Joaquin Phoenix

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. — Ernest Hemingway,