Kilometre Zero Quotes & Sayings

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living? — James Rouse

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut. — Gwendoline Riley

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. — Aristotle.

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn. — Christina Baker Kline

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child. — Mencius

The skinnification of America's jeanscape has gone too far. — Stephen Colbert

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die. — Poul Anderson

It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea. — Ian Hunter

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster. — John Kasich

What's with the zombie craze? Zombies are half alive, half dead, right? Sounds like my wife in bed. — Jarod Kintz

I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face. — R.L. LaFevers

We're on the same team now. I promise to look after you. No-one will harm you as long as I'm around. — Louise Nicks

I really wanted to get that dynamic on the record onto people and let them know it wasn't just a simple strumming along the guitar type of thing without ramming it down their throats so I kind of went the opposite way and sang some of the songs more quietly which allowed for the louder parts to sound as though there were more. It was the only way singing those songs made sense to me. — James Vincent McMorrow

I could not but smile to hear her talking in this lofty strain, but I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us more happy. — Oliver Goldsmith