Kauput Quotes & Sayings

Especially when the leaders in your supposed community make it clear that that is exactly how they feel about you when it comes down to the crunch. But no, ignore that. It is in this moment that we must show the true strength of will within us. A few years ago, in the middle of the financial crisis, the artist and musician Henry Rollins managed to express this deeply human obligation better than millennia of religious doctrine ever have: — Ryan Holiday

Helen had resigned herself to the fact that in order to buy affordable jeans that were long enough she had to go a few sizes too big, but if she didn't want them to fall off her hips, she had to put up with a mild breeze flapping around her ankles. Helen was pretty sure that the "wicked jealous" salesgirls didn't walk around with chilly ankles. Or with their butt cracks showing. — Josephine Angelini

I am light and stardust in his hands. — Sierra Abrams

I'm a minor player in my own life story. — Tony Wilson

We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick - professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, "We the people," this breed called Americans. — Ronald Reagan

...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention. — Aleister Crowley

I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea. — Glenn Close

Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst 2 million of India's poorest? We would hear a lot about socialist appropriation and the death of democracy. Why should taking from the rich be called appropriation and taking from the poor be called development? — Arundhati Roy

Everyone has wounds as want healing. Seems like they all find me. — Katherine Howe

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character. — J.K. Rowling

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards. — Karl Lagerfeld

I have my own office, and I'm there during the evenings and weekends. But during the week, I'm sitting in the middle of my studio, talking with everybody, deciding together every detail, every pallette, every yarn, every colour. — Dries Van Noten

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science. — George Gaylord Simpson