Kendime Not Quotes & Sayings

The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and leave behind one or two things that wouldn't have happened without you. — Guillermo Del Toro

It is a joke to me that this man should have presented himself as an ardent conservationist, since so many of the companies he served as a director or in which he was a major stockholder were notorious damagers of the water or the soil or the atmosphere. But it wasn't a joke to *MacIntosh, who had come into this world incapable of caring much about anything. So, in order to hide this deficiency, he had become a great actor, pretending even to himself that he cared passionately about all sorts of things. With — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist. — Gao Xingjian

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible. — Julian Barnes

A mirror reflects appearance but only actions reflect beauty — Janna Cachola

The Bible is full of thou-shalt-nots. Thou shalt not kill, that's one. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor, that's two. Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife - three and four. Notice how none of them have any loopholes. There are no dependent clauses you can hang your sins on, like: Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife, unless thou art wandering in the blackest hell, lost to yourself and to every memory of light and goodness, and uncovering her nakedness is the only way back to yourself. No, the Bible's absolute when it comes to most things. It's why I don't believe in God.
Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right. Any God who doesn't understand that can go fuck Himself.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain - that's five. — Hillary Jordan

Your life wasn't meant to be a struggle; it was meant to be an adventure. Start living the adventure now! — Marshall Sylver

[Robert] Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest. — Randall Jarrell

There's always a side of me that goes, 'I'm just a nerd.' I never look at myself and say, 'I'm beautiful.' Like anyone else, I see the flaws. Guys don't do that as much as women. But you have to learn to appreciate and accept and love yourself as you are. — Heather Graham

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word. — Willy Brandt

Pregnancy turned me into such a pussy. — L.A. Casey

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking. — E. Digby Baltzell

Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery? — Mary Chapin Carpenter

It's nice to be with someone, but I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad. — Kristin Davis