Kessell Brothers Quotes & Sayings

[Footnote:] Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody! — Will Cuppy

The sacred dimension is not something that you can know through words and ideas any more than you can learn what an apple pie tastes like by eating the recipe. The modern age has forgotten that facts and information, for all their usefulness, are not the same as truth or wisdom, and certainly not the same as direct experience. — Adyashanti

My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn't belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying. — Veronica Roth

I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable. — James L. Brooks

How glad I am that spring has come, and how it calms my mind when wearied with study to walk out in the green fields and beside the pleasant streams in which South Hadley is rich! ... The older I grow, the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it not so with you? (May 16, 1848 to Abiah Root) — Emily Dickinson

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories. — Mason Cooley

This suggests a curious paradox. If art arises from our fundamental isolation in our own minds - from the way we are denied direct access to the world and all its contents - it also temporarily frees us from that isolation. Art lets us live, for a little while, in other worlds, including in other people's inner worlds; we can hear their thoughts, feel their emotions, even believe their beliefs. — Kathryn Schulz

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans! — Mark Russell

There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs. — Mitt Romney

As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release. — Tim Wise