Kittelson Roundabout Quotes & Sayings

With MTV in the '80s, you made your album but then you needed to use any money you made to create a video - instead of being able to use that money to pay for you and your band to live on while you wrote new songs. So MTV upped the ante of looking for one hit. Conceptual bands who didn't have a hit were going to lose. — Mark Mothersbaugh

There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of capitalism, and government handed over to capitalists. — Donald Rooum

The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example? — Charles Spurgeon

I reach out to the sun that blinds me to feel a warmth that reminds me of the love that unbinds me. — Robert Turk

Nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking. — Isabelle Holland

I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope. — Zoe Heller

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed. — Tea Obreht

...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes. — Roger Casement

When in doubt, do without. — Samuel Ben Hofni

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself. — C.S. Lewis

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected. — Luis Fortuno

Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise. — Rett MacPherson

Have you ever read Hans Christian Andersen's story of The Little Mermaid, Miranda? Have you ever wanted
something so badly that you were willing to suffer the sensation of a thousand blades cutting into your feet? — Vanessa Garden

Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds. — Christopher Hitchens

Life is here to be enjoyed, your smile and your happiness makes it even better. — Jim Jensen