Kjelgaard Jim Quotes & Sayings

When you are working on a problem, you sometimes get so close to it that you can't see all the options. You miss elegant solutions because the creative part of your mind is suppressed by the intensity of your focus. Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to go home, eat dinner, watch TV, go to bed, and then wake up the next morning and take a shower. — Robert C. Martin

Maybe I should disappear and not make anymore music. I mean, I think I'd take it really badly if I got slayed. — Gold Panda

Every magician knows there is no such thing as magic. They are masters of making things possible out of a situation that seems impossible. The key to getting what you want in life is to know that the only reason why something is, is because it was made possible. It can only be if it is possible for it to be. Make it possible and let it be. — Timothy Simpson

The ruling classes have in their hands the army, money, the schools, the churches, and the press. In the schools, they kindle patriotism in the children by means of histories describing their own people as the best of all peoples and always in the right. Among adults they kindle it by spectacles, jubilees, monuments, and by a lying patriotic press. Above all, they inflame patriotism in this way: perpetrating every kind of harshness and injustice against other nations, they provoke in them enmity towards their own people, and then in turn exploit that enmity to embitter their people against the foreigner. — Leo Tolstoy

Everyone has a captivity narrative; today we call it memoir. — Stacy Schiff

I don't care for remakes. There's soooo much undiscovered material out there; old and new. I want to be original. — Tishuan Scott

I was six foot one inch when I started fighting, but with all the uppercuts I'm up to six foot five inches. — Chuck Wepner

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off. — Stephen King

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation. — Rajneesh

Ask yourselves, young people, about the love of Christ. Acknowledge His voice resounding in the temple of your heart. Return His bright and penetrating glance which opens the paths of your life to the horizons of the Church's mission. It is a taxing mission, today more than ever, to teach men the truth about themselves, about their end, their destiny, and to show faithful souls the unspeakable riches of the love of Christ. Do not be afraid of the radicalness of His demands, because Jesus, who loved us first, is prepared to give Himself to you, as well as asking of you. If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much. — Pope John Paul II

It's great to hear someone really care for the soprano saxophone. — Rufus Reid

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them
to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever. — James Baldwin

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Before Kanin Turned me, death was something I faced every day. People died, often; it was just how the world worked. I thought that, after the deaths of my old gang and Stick's betrayal, I wouldn't worry about anyone else. And yet, here I was, a vampire, wishing I could have saved the very person who hated me most. — Julie Kagawa

Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men. — Jim Kjelgaard