Klaidutis Quotes & Sayings

You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more. — Julio Iglesias

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored. — Danny Boyle

The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them. — Billy Graham

Sin is cosmic treason — R.C. Sproul

In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers. — George Herbert

We loved each other but weren't so selfish about our love that we could simply turn our backs on someone we cared about. — Richelle Mead

In the months to come, I would look back on this time in my life almost as a kind of out-of-body travel, from which I had returned with nothing but a sense memory of having been somewhere inexpressibly exciting and far away. It wasn't like a dream, exactly, although it had a dream's strange internal logic. It was like looking through the window of an airplane at night, the way the city below appears so near, yet untouchable beyond the glass--a network of lights, flames, stars. — Katha Pollitt

So why are they fighting? Political differences, right?" 208 grilled me.
"I guess you could say that."
"So their ideas are in conflict?" continued 208.
"Yes. But then you could say that there are 1.2 million conflicting ideas in the world. Probably more."
"So then it's almost impossible to be friends with anyone?" That was 209.
"That's true," I said. "It's just about impossible to be friends."
This was my lifestyle in the 1970s. Prophesied by Dostoevsky, consolidated by yours truly. — Haruki Murakami

And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them. — Victor Hugo

Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not. — Ursula K. Le Guin

We tell you, tapping on our brows,
The story as it should be,
As if the story of a house
Were told or ever could be. — Edwin Robinson

What is
there in being able
to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of
self-defense;
in proving that one has had the experience
of carrying a stick? — Marianne Moore

To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it. — Lucy Corin

The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them. — Lynn Coady