Kistenkoning Quotes & Sayings

Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction ... For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. — Vladimir Nabokov

I believe that there may well be a personal God out there - not a monotheistic God - that has got it in for me. — Clive Sinclair

Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time — Benny Bellamacina

There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world. — Flannery O'Connor

If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal. — Terry Pratchett

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue. — Gertrude Atherton

Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by. — Henry David Thoreau

The whole art of merchandising," he said, "consists of appealing to the imagination. — Lindy Woodhead

I need ten thousand angels to walk me out the door. — Mindy McCready

If you get lost, you can always be found. — Phillip Phillips

As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families - they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence — Han Kang

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery. — Euripides

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi

We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect the civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources. — Janet Napolitano