Kindel Quotes & Sayings

Words are as beautiful as wind horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral. — Ted Berkman

I want the light filtered down through the trees painting flesh like a mosaic and filling up the dark in me. I want to see how sunset decorates your hair. — Tyler Knott Gregson

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions. — Anthony Braxton

It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but in some universes men spend ages looking for other intelligences in the sky without once looking under their feet. That is because they've got the time-span all wrong. From stone's point of view the universe is hardly created and mountain ranges are bouncing up and down like organ-stops while continents zip backward and forward in general high spirits, crashing into each other from the sheer joy of momentum and getting their rocks off. It is going to be quite some time before stone notices its disfiguring skin disease and starts to scratch, which is just as well. — Terry Pratchett

It is impossible to attain proper physical condition without being sound both mentally and morally. — John Wooden

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children. — Bil Keane

It's luck. All is luck when skill's played out. It was luck left me with a face that didn't fit in Contact, it's luck that's made you a great game-player, it's luck that's put you here tonight. Neither of us were fully planned, Jernau Gurgeh; your genes determined you and your mother's genofixing made certain you would not be a cripple or mentally subnormal. The rest is chance. I was brought into being with the freedom to be myself; if what that general plan and that particular luck produced is something a majority - a majority, mark you; not all - of one SC admissions board decides is not what they just happen to want, is it my fault? Is it?"

"No," Gurgeh sighed, looking down.

"Oh, it's all so wonderful in the Culture, isn't it, Gurgeh; nobody starves and nobody dies of disease or natural disasters and nobody and nothing's exploited, but there's still luck and heartache and joy, there's still chance and advantage and disadvantage. — Iain M. Banks

But no one could control Mark Littleberry; the man was fundamentally uncontrollable. — Richard Preston

My family was made of good people who did good things with what they were given. What fairness does life show in a time like this? But life is not fair and that is nothing new, so I bottled the pain and loss, and released them through a single tear rolling down my cheek. — B.M. Tolbert

She has every reason to be mad. I just wish I could do something. She's no soldier like us. She's kind and gentle."

"Aye," Maven nodded in agreement. "Not all of us are built for it. What kind of world would it be if we were? — B.M. Tolbert

No matter what came next, Daniel rested safely in the grip of his Sovereign God. — Lynn Austin

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender. — Raymond Moody