Kilninver Quotes & Sayings

If one is not a meditator, howsoever good one is it is all useless. — Osho

The life of an actor can be very enviable. — Wallace Shawn

(on his thought on excessive nationalism) ...the country was no doubt very important, but that there was no need at all to act the clown by talking about it all the time, as if one were completely possessed by it. — Soseki Natsume

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in the dissimilar. — Aristotle.

For Delta blueman Robert Johnson and his contemporaries, the train was the eternal metaphor for the travelling life, and it still holds true today. There is no travel like it. Train lines carve through all facets of a nation. While buses stick to major highways and planes reduce the unfolding of lives to a bird's eye view, trains putter through the domains of the rich and the poor, the desperate and the idle, rural and urban, isolated and cluttered. Through train windows you see realities rarely visible in the landscaped tourist areas. Those frames hold the untended jungle of a nation's truth. Despite my shredded emotions, there was still no feeling like dragging all your worldly possessions onto a carriage, alone and anonymous, to set off into the unknown; where any and all varieties of adventures await, where you might meet a new best friend, where the love of your life could be hiding in a dingy cafe. The clatter of the tracks is the sound of liberation. — Patrick O'Neil

The only time I talk on the golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club. — Seve Ballesteros

I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children. — Nick Cannon

Your house was not yours, but your late father's, and his pool
was almost as shallow as I was when I asked if you thought I looked good [...]
Your bedroom walls were covered in pictures, and your shag carpet
was almost as green as I was when I realized I wasn't the only one
being hurt. — Kris Kidd

It's a funny thing, 'The Office,' because millions and millions and millions and millions of people didn't watch it. But culturally, it is more of a phenomenon than almost anything else I can remember as far as British television is concerned. — Martin Freeman

When you feel like you're at the end, Christ is just beginning. — Todd Stocker

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak. — Charles De Gaulle

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan. — Shinzo Abe

For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty. — Sandra Bernhard