Kimdis Quotes & Sayings

Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly. — Paul Graham

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want. — Derrick Rose

Men love pleasure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life. — Ernest Renan

I had made my mind up to stay at the top of the class and [ ... ] graduate at the head of it. [ ... ] that was my kind of ideal. I just didn't know any better. — Hermann Hesse

I've brought you some camomile tea, sir," said Albert. HMM? "Sir?" SORRY. I WAS THINKING. WHAT WAS IT YOU SAID? "Camomile tea?" I THOUGHT THAT WAS A KIND OF SOAP? "You can put it in soap or tea, sir," said Albert. He was worried. He was always worried when Death started to think about things. It was the wrong job for thinking about things. And he thought about them in the wrong way. — Terry Pratchett

Education is great ... but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am. — K.K. Raghava

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. — Christopher Hitchens

I muscled through the moment with my usual delicacy. — Nicole Peeler

In a real world, the one outside the rarified atmosphere where Popes meet Archbishops of Canterbury, people no longer care whether somebody is an Anglican or a Roman Catholic. They already take it for granted that being a "believer" is more important than having a denominational name-tag any day of the week. — Tom Harpur

In addition, Steinberg has found that adolescence is especially rough on parents who don't have an outside interest, whether it be work or a hobby, to absorb their interests as their child is pulling away. — Jennifer Senior

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in. — Morgan Freeman

Don't ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say. — Belle De Jour