Kathreen Kourlis Quotes & Sayings

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart. — Madame De Stael

It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house. — Jerry Spinelli

I would like to undermine the stereotype of "strict philosophy." J.L. Austin remarked that, when philosophy is done well, it's all over by the bottom of the first page. I take him to have meant that the real work comes in setting up the problem with which you are dealing, and thus getting your reader to take particular things for granted. — Philip Kitcher

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it. — Richard Cecil

There is clearly a Christian New Testament tradition that warns against praying loudly in the front of the temple where everyone can see you. — Tim Kaine