Kilrock Construction Quotes & Sayings

Every writer on this planet THINKS he is a great writer (why waste your entire life writing when you believe you are mediocre?) but its deemed socially unacceptable to actually speak out such thoughts. So, modesty is always a public concept and not an inner one. For that reason alone 'modesty' can actually be said to be the product of a large ego, for the ego is primarily concerned with survival and society rewards this dishonesty and tends to punish honesty (see Camus) — Martijn Benders

Has anyone ... any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes ... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again. — Gautama Buddha

Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts. — Honore De Balzac

Even the locusts are afraid of my mother. — Susan Ee

Winter is beautiful, but bed is better. — Arnold Lobel

There is, in short,
something terribly wrong with claiming to be a devout Christian while hating one or another of the fellow believers. — Ben Witherington III

You have been the pillow
I lay my weary soul upon — Richard L. Ratliff

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as. — Arsene Houssaye

Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for 'Puppy Love' and I just didn't want to. Then I thought I'd have some fun, so we did this insane heavy metal version of it. The applause was polite. — Donny Osmond

I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time. — Emile M. Cioran

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? — Alfred De Vigny

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars. — Chevy Chase