Kiz And Wizdom Quotes & Sayings

I'm a carnivore, a carnivore, a terrible disgusting carnivore. — Jonathan Franzen

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help. — Agnes Smedley

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves. — Samantha Shannon

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane. — Jimmy Buffett

Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down. — Joe Madureira

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it. — Sally Ride

No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his
neighbour's heart. — Marcus Aurelius

Does evil come from inside ,from the dark depths of the human soul or does it come from outside ,from the objective conditions of human life?
This question divides all people into two large groups: believers and materialists. For believers all evil and good is in man. Hence denying violence because it's directed toward the outside, is a fight with an imaginary, nonexistent evil. Violence should be directed toward ourselves, inside, in the form of repentance or asceticism.
To assert that evil is outside, that a man is evil because the conditions in which he lives are bad, that changes in these conditions would bring changes in man,to insist that man is a result of outside circumstances, is from the religious point of view the most godless and the most inhuman idea which has ever appeared in the human mind. Such an opinion degrades man to a thing, to a helpless executor of outside, mechanical, unconscious forces. — Alija Izetbegovic

The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive. — Michael Azerrad

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them. — Christopher Columbus

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see. — Dan Chaon

Shakespeare, I come ! — Theodore Dreiser

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. — D.L. Moody

Excellence always sells. — Earl Nightingale