Kickoffs Crossword Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress. — Deborah Moggach

Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with. — Dick Clark

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. — Norman O. Brown

In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I never write about a place I don't know. — Ruth Rendell

Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive! — John Osborne

The sadness inherent in any memory comes from the fact that its object is forgetting. — Cesar Aira

When in doubt, tell the truth. When in pain, listen to the wind. — Nanao Sakaki

Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself — Stephen Harper

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. — Henry Miller

I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up. — Michael Skolnik

I don't know why the publishers in New York don't take a tip from Hollywood and just publish the outlines of novels rather than the completed books. Let the audience use their imaginations, as my Maw always says about radio. I would much prefer to read an outline of War and Peace than slog through eight hundred thousand words. Why do I need Tolstoy to describe snow? I can imagine snow, whether Russian snow or just regular snow. But book publishers seem to think that the authors should do all the work, and the readers should be waited on hand-and-foot like a buncha goddamn prima donnas. — Gary Reilly

Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will be meet with the violent resistance of the populace ... One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being ... The people owe all the political rights and privileges which we enjoy today, in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength — Rudolf Rocker

It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin
"So not the point!" -Claire
"Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin
"You're insane." -Claire — Rachel Caine

The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy. — Kit Bond