Kivver Quotes & Sayings

Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or shall the interest of the people be paramount? — Rutherford B. Hayes

There is an empty place within me where my heart once was. — George R R Martin

If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all. — Edith Konecky

The whole idea of WHAT HAPPENED WAS ... is not about dating. It is more about people who are not committed to who they are or are indifferent about their life in general, which is how I felt about myself when I wrote it. I had turned 40 and I was unhappy and I wanted to write about that. Dating just became the framework ... I like all those fringy, weird, nonverbal, quiet, tiny little things, those powerful interchanges between people, things that go unsaid, that people know are happening all the time but nobody wants to talk about. That's what I want to make movies about. — Tom Noonan

In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported ... — Allan Kaprow

Learning how to transcend consciousness to a higher consciousness is a blissful journey and the ultimate essence of life. — Debasish Mridha

Most people try to get rich by being cheap and the price for that is that you live cheap and there is so much money out there; why would you want to live cheap? — Robert Kiyosaki

It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town. — Judith Kelman

The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it. — David W. Orr

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible. — James Lee Burke