Klemicks Quotes & Sayings

When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old theater, and it was just a great experience. — Raymond Cruz

Churches that depart from the Word will soon find that God has departed from them. — Robert Godfrey

She represents the beauty of the common people in all its vulgarity and provocativeness. — Alaa Al Aswany

I cannot change another person. I let others be who they are, and I simply love who I am. — Louise Hay

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side. — Rick Riordan

It's not possible to run away from yourself. Unless, of course, you're schizophrenic and can take holidays outside your mind. — Fennel Hudson

I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with. — Al Franken

Nevertheless, ere long, the warm, warbling persuasiveness of the pleasant, holiday weather we came to, seemed gradually to charm him from his mood. For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such gladhearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air. More than once did he put forth the faint blossom of a look, which, in any other man, would have soon flowered out in a smile. — Herman Melville

PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with. — Ambrose Bierce

You can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave. — Jodee Blanco

She and her late husband, Leander Cross, a prominent surgeon of the darker nation, were, in my childhood, perhaps the leading host of the Gold Coast party circuit, a circuit my parents traveled often, because it was, in those days, what one did: glittering dinner at one house on the Friday, champagne brunch at another on the Sunday, caterers, cooks, even temporary butlers at the ready as the best of black Washington charged about in mad imitation of white people's foolishness. — Stephen L. Carter