Kid A Kidder Quotes & Sayings

I had always thought of Chris as my kid brother and watching how this kid, as I still thought of him, had affected so many people's lives around the world was incredible. — Margot Kidder

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity — Vladimir Nabokov

The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh. — Paul Simon

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was. — John Lithgow

Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse? — Eugene Mirman

If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Factions among yourselves; preferring such
To offices and honors, as ne'er read
The elements of saving policy;
But deeply skilled in all the principles
That usher to destruction. — Philip Massinger

The dead did not bother her. It was the living that played on her mind. — Caroline Mitchell

And that was when she had one single, awful realization. It's not a doll. And against all her best intentions, she began to scream and couldn't stop. — Rachel Caine

As i discovered, the path to sobriety is a precarious, complex journey. you obviously want to purge yourself of something that has been so destructive and has had such a grip on you. but in the deep recesses of your mind, you wonder if you will mourn the loss of this old friend that has been by your side for years. i know this sounds sick, but you actually find yourself wondering if your life is going to become quite boring without this crutch. of course, the yearning for true health far outweighs everything else. you know things are going to be better for you, for your loved ones, and for everyone you encounter. you will no longer have to hide things and live a lie. yes, that initial high of drugs and booze can be very, very attractive, but it's not worth the wrecked and trashed feeling you have the next morning. nor is it worth the cumulative toll it exacts from you. — Lou Gramm

If anyone had asked him there and then if it was worth it, he would have whispered: "I don't know." Sometimes life doesn't let you choose your battles. Just the company you keep. He — Fredrik Backman

Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it. — Frederick Lenz