Kitabain Quotes & Sayings

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. — John Boyd Orr

Are you sure you don't have a crazy hairy grandmother in your family? — Vivi Anna

The smocked chick fingered my hair and said in her stupid voice, 'You're receding.' 'We all are,' I said. We all are. We are all receding - waving or beckoning or just kissing our fingertips, we are all fading, shrinking, paling. Life is all losing, we are all losing, losing mother, father, youth, hair, looks, teeth, friends, lovers, shape, reason, life. We are losing, losing, losing. Take life away. It's too hard, too difficult. We aren't any good at it. Try us out on something else. But shelve life. Take life off the stands. It's too fucking difficult and we aren't any good at it. — Martin Amis

There is a slight difference between collecting fifty wine labels and collecting fifty pinball machines. — Haruki Murakami

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares. — Stephen Rea

The amateur allows his worth and identity to be defined by others. The amateur craves third-party validation. The amateur is tyrannized by his imagined conception of what is expected of him. He is imprisoned by what he believes he ought to think, how he ought to look, what he ought to do, and who he ought to be. — Steven Pressfield