Kehres Towne Quotes & Sayings

Unburdening, she'd told Laurie about a vision she'd had when she was four or five years old. Unable to sleep on Christmas Eve, she'd tiptoed downstairs and seen a fat bearded man standing in front of her family's tree, checking items off a list. He wasn't wearing a red suit - it was more like a blue bus driver's uniform - but she still recognized him as Santa Claus. She watched him for a while, then snuck back upstairs, her body filled with an ecstatic sense of wonder and confirmation. As a teenager, she convinced herself that the whole thing had been a dream, but it had seemed real at the time, so real that she reported it to her family the next morning as a simple fact. They still jokingly referred to it that way, as though it were a documented historical event - the Night Meg Saw Santa. — Tom Perrotta

Don't fight the darkness. Don't even worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up that light of pure consciousness: Negativity goes. — David Lynch

Difficile est satiram non scribere
[It is hard not to write a satire] — Juvenal

[T]hese three days of meditation have revealed to me that every thought I think is, in one way or another, an ugly, fatuous form of self-congratulation. Even what appears to be the most searing self-criticism is in fact self-congratulation. A man capable of seeing his worst side, you congratulate yourself. Coetzee is pleased to have been so hard on himself. — Tim Parks

I can't say I wasn't hoping for it, but I didn't see it coming. — Jessi Kirby

Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward. — Flora Thompson

I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days. — Mark Lawrence

A good looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man. — Jane Austen

I never ever thought that I would be in a Bond film, ever, which is weird because I grew up loving these amazing movies. — Naomie Harris

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one. — Dalai Lama