Kelmscott Quotes & Sayings

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it. — Damien Rice

Coach Hedge grunted like he was pleased to have an excuse. He unclipped the megaphone from his belt and continued giving directions, but his voice came out like Darth Vader's. The kids cracked up. The coach tried again, but this time the megaphone blared: The cow says moo! — Rick Riordan

Because remember, the talking about the thing isn't the thing. The doing of the thing is the thing. — Amy Poehler

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear. — Ken Livingstone

Well, it's really gratifying to me to have a stage and some bright lights and a microphone. They're tools and opportunities, and to be able to just pull somebody up on stage with me and point at them is a great feeling. — Ani DiFranco

I told my brothers what happened. Are you ready to come meet them?"
She straightened. "Aye."
"I warn you," he teased in an attempt to lighten the mood. "They're big, burly bampots. — Lisa Carlisle

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing. — Stephen Sprouse

Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility. — Marcus Aurelius

People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. — Mitch Albom

To be slightly evil is to embrace life. — Venkatesh G. Rao

Duncan,we're still in prison," Frederic said dryly. "You're not going to see anything except this cell. Which has spiders, by the way. Have you noticed the spiders?" "Indeed I have: Carmen, Zippy, and Dr. T," Duncan said. — Christopher Healy

Your dislike for the project will be duly noted, and ignored. — John Flanagan

[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the nuclear danger that some of its parents felt, neither has it developed the deep attachment to nuclear arms also often found among their parents, including most of the governing class ... The call for abolition should therefore be, among other things, a call from an older generation to younger one. — Jonathan Schell