Killingsworth Lawn Quotes & Sayings

The worst of these politics of revolution is this: they temper and harden the breast, in order to prepare it for the desperate strokes which are sometimes used in extreme occasions. But — Edmund Burke

Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it. — Judy Blume

Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills? — Steven Wright

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat. — E.B. White

harbinger, n.
When I was in third grade, we would play that game at recess where you'd twist an apple while holding on to its stem, reciting the alphabet, one letter for each turn. When the stem broke, the name of your true love would be revealed. Whenever I played, I always made sure that the apple broke at K. At the time I was doing this because no one in my grade had a name that began with K. Then, in college, it seemed like everyone I fell for was a K. It was enough to make me give up on the letter, and I didn't even associate it with you until later on, when I saw your signature on a credit card receipt, and the only legible letter was that first K. I will admit: When I got home that night, I went to the refrigerator and took out another apple. But I stopped twisting at J and put the apple back. You see, I didn't trust myself. I knew that even if the apple wasn't ready, I was going to pull that stem — David Levithan

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden

If one has egoism without my-ness, he will go to moksha; all this entrapment is there because of egoism with my-ness! — Dada Bhagwan

Hallo, Pooh," said Rabbit.
"Hallo, Rabbit," said Pooh dreamily.
"Did you make that song up?"
"Well, I sort of made it up," said Pooh. "It isn't Brain," he went on humbly, "because You Know Why, Rabbit; but it comes to me sometimes."
"Ah!" said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went and fetched them. — A.A. Milne

We carry the lives we've imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost. — Helen Macdonald

Pleasure is an attitude, not a person or place. - Diary 6, pg. 52 — Anais Nin

Morality doesn't exist in space, only in the spaces between people. — Alex Latimer

We should be worrying about Wall Street - run health care. — Wendell Potter