Kirchmanns Quotes & Sayings

The Give and Take Athletic Association lived up to its name. The hall of the association in Orchard street was fitted out with muscle- making inventions. With the fibres thus builded up the members were wont to engage the police and rival social and athletic organisations in joyous combat. Between these more serious occupations the Saturday night hop with the paper-box factory girls came as a refining influence and as an efficient screen. — O. Henry

Students love trying to imitate Nabokov, which teaches them a lot - mostly about why not to imitate somebody wired so differently from yourself. Nabokov wannabes don't sound just like turds, but like pretentious turds. The writer's best voice will grow from embracing her own "you-ness" - which I call talent, and which is best expressed in voice. Which — Mary Karr

Everything you've heard about monsters, about nightmares, legends whispered around campfires... all the stories are true — Cassandra Clare

Life in abundance comes only through great love. — Elbert Hubbard

Passion is a strong emotion and the enthusiasm to do something. — Pearl Zhu

Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They're bored with their lives, and there's nothing they can do about it. They're eaten alive by longing, and they're dead before they die. — Lev Grossman

Contentment is easy because what is needed? — Osho

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well. — Hans Blix

I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars. — Chevy Chase

Animals are wonderful, because they put you in a great emotional state. — James Arthur Ray

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. — Thomas More

Lots of children I know are excited to grow up. So I wonder why this man was so happy to become young again? — Sara Rich

The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook. — Euell Gibbons

Guidance isn't guidance until specific. An action you can take that's congruent with that state of being. For example, if you're meditating, and you get "Be more authentic," ask what does that mean until you get a specific answer, such as
Have that honest conversation with Suzie you've been putting off. — Derek Rydall