Kleinbaum Quotes & Sayings

But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for! — N.H. Kleinbaum

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'twas always thus and always thus will be. — N.H. Kleinbaum

The town was peopled with sleepwalkers, whose trance was broken only on the rare occasions when at night their wounds, to all appearance closed, suddenly reopened. Then, waking with a start, they would run their fingers over the wounds with a sort of absentminded curiosity, twisting their lips, and in a flash their grief blazed up again, and abruptly there rose before them the mournful visage of their love. In the morning they harked back to normal conditions, in other words, the plague. — Albert Camus

I'm a lesbian and I'd rather you bully me than a thirteen-year-old kid. — Dan Savage

Disney is a machine, and I'm grateful for it, but I feel like being part of that environment made me crave the reaction from other projects even more. — Selena Gomez

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. — N.H. Kleinbaum

When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think. — N.H. Kleinbaum

I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land. — Callan McAuliffe

College will probably destroy your love for poetry. Hours of boring analysis, dissection, and criticism will see to that. College will also expose you to all manner of literature - much of it transcendent works of magic that you must devour; some of it utter dreck that you must avoid like the plague. — N.H. Kleinbaum

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. — N.H. Kleinbaum

Take it from me, every vote counts. — Al Gore

Great men,
Till they have gained their ends, are giants in
Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies
In their performance. And it is a maxim
Allowed among them, so they may deceive,
They may swear anything; for the queen of love,
As they hold constantly, does never punish,
But smile, at lovers' perjuries. — Philip Massinger

Carpe Diem," Keating whispered loudly. "Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary. — N.H. Kleinbaum

man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends - they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant. Suspecting it, I have nevertheless depended on this tolerance all my life, and if I were, even now, without either a dog or a horse in my keeping, I should feel I had lost contact with the earth. I should be as concerned as a Buddhist monk having lost contact with Nirvana. — Beryl Markham

That everything that happens can be converted to good. We simply do not know the good of it, our world being so vast and wide and us but a small part in it — Jane Kirkpatrick

Nothing?' said Corlath. 'I said there were two things. I have told you the first. You told us what you saw as you saw it. But this is the second thing: you spoke in the Old Tongue, what we call the Language of the Gods, that none knows any more but kings and sorcerers, and those they wish to teach it to. The language I just spoke to you, that you did not recognize- I was repeating the words you had said yourself, a moment before. — Robin McKinley