Klacksen Quotes & Sayings

I don't think my father loved his job with the city, but on the other hand, I'm not sure he ever asked himself major questions like 'Do I like my job? Is this really what I want to spend my life doing? Is it as fulfilling as some of the dreams I had for myself when I was a young man serving in Korea and reading British poetry in my bunk in the barracks at night?' He had a family to support, this was his job, he got up every day and did it, end of story, everything else is just self-indulgent nonsense. That may actually have been the lifetime sum-total of his thinking on the matter. He — David Foster Wallace

Rayner can't go into politics, she's got more shit on her than Elton John's cock! — Garth Ennis

Some spy," Irina scoffed. "Perhaps you can post photo to Internet and ask your Bookface friends to confirm. — Clifford Riley

When you only had words, you had to make up for things, say what you might not need to otherwise. — Sarah Dessen

Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,
to penetrate to the shores of its Lake Tchad, and discover the source of its Nile, perchance the Mountains of the Moon? Who knows what fertility and beauty, moral and natural, are to be found? In the Mountains of the Moon, in the Central Africa of the night, there is where all Niles have their hidden heads. The expeditions up the Nile as yet extend but to the Cataracts, or perchance to the mouth of the White Nile; but it is the black Nile that concerns us. — Henry David Thoreau

The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing. — Elizabeth Towne

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. — Michael Ondaatje

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. — Ramakrishna

Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious. — Duff Goldman