Klbi 2019 Quotes & Sayings

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him. — Bertrand Russell

I didn't want to be a victim of my own message [in Trust film]. I didn't want to take advantage of a 14-year-old actor. I didn't want there to be any nudity, or any real overt violence. I think it's more terrifying that there is no violence, in that moment. There's control and there's power, but there's no violence. — David Schwimmer

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

See anything interesting out there in the woods of King Hall? — Scarlett Dawn

Superiority makes every man feel its equal. It is courtesy without condescension; affability without familiarity; self-sufficiency without selfishness; simplicity without snide. It weighs sixteen ounces to the pound without the package, and it doesn't need a four-colored label to make it go. — George Horace Lorimer

The fate of the universe didn't rest in the hands of the giants. It could be found in the littlest things. Anything done well was a worthy accomplishment, whether it be unwrapping arcane secrets or sweeping halls, raising kingdoms from the ocean or washing dishes. All tasks, great or small, were of equal importance in the end. Without peasants, there could be no kings. Without soldiers, there was no army. — A. Lee Martinez

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not? — Ken Robinson

God often gave us the very things from which to recover that we would be the most horrified to have. — Christina Sell

Reality TV does actually have a message, folks. That message is selling and reinforcing capitalism, ignorance, and the status quo. — Kameron Hurley

If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate change. — Hendrik Poinar

Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable become intolerable once the idea of escape from them is suggested. — Alexis De Tocqueville

A band is a good way to break up a friendship. — Julian Casablancas

I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it. — Mary Karr