Kashikari Quotes & Sayings

I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it. — Amity Gaige

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking. — Alan Greenspan

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology. — Robert Wyatt

Everyone here is insane. I am the insanest of the insane. — Kiersten White

For a certain generation of African immigrants cleaning offices became part of the culture like male circumcision and supporting Arsenal. — Ben Aaronovitch

From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion to a higher good comes our propensity to the foulest atrocities. From our commitment to ideals comes our excuse to hate. Since the beginning of history, we have been blinded by evil's ability to don a selfless disguise. We have failed to see that our finest qualities often lead us to the actions we most abhor, murder, torture, genocide and war. — Howard Bloom

It was through the discovery and exploration of the unconscious that Freud made his major discoveries, chief among them that from birth to death we are, every last one of us, divided against ourselves. We both want to grow up and don't want to grow up; we hunger for sexual pleasure, we dread sexual pleasure; we hate our own aggressions---anger, cruelty, the need to humiliate---yet they derive from the grievances we are least willing to part with. Our very suffering is a source of both pain and reassurance. What Freud found most difficult to cure in his patients was the resistance to being cured. — Vivian Gornick

To win, you have to believe you will win. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Everybody wants to play his natural position and play every day, but in the world of professional sports that's not always possible. — Brian Roberts

I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest. — James Caan

As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure it's a smooth transition. I believe we still need places where people can go to handle, hold and talk about books, get information about what books are out there, and so on. — James Patterson

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication. — Richard Louv

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars. — Donald Fagen