Klifta Quotes & Sayings

It was simpler in those days. We could say they'd died for their country. We didn't have to tell them the details; they didn't expect that. — John Le Carre

I don't know what a guy needs to do to impress a girl these days. — Jeff Kinney

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended. — Jennifer Westfeldt

Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome. — Emily Dickinson

stronger than mountains.
a place where my heart
feels the safest-
underneath his shirt. — Sanober Khan

I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate. — Dan Flavin

There is also something excellent in every audience,
the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here it is undeveloped, a roll of film with all its mysteries locked up. I never took it anyplace, just left it waiting in a drawer dreaming of stars. That was our time, to see if Lottie Carson was who we thought she was, all those shots we took, cracking up, kissing with our mouths open, laughing, but we never finished it. We thought we had time, running after her, jumping on the bus and trying to glimpse her dimple through the tired nurses arguing in scrubs and the moms on the phone with the groceries in the laps of the kids in the strollers. We hid behind the mailboxes and lampposts half a block away as she kept moving through her neighborhood, where I've never been, the sky getting dark on only the first date, thinking all the while we'd develop it later. — Daniel Handler

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything. — Richard Flanagan

It's not what we are, Sophie. It's what we do. — Soman Chainani

Often people who already had an interest in human rights work. What I did notice with all of them, even the people who professed to be interested in human rights, was that activism was somewhat a concept in their mind - a symbolic flag on the quad or something to show how many people were starving in the world. But once they saw their efforts connected to a person, I did see a change. — Adam Braver

Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?"
"I'm pretty sure I never said that. — Rick Riordan

We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding. While we today seem to be kind to the Christian, remember we have yet to influence the 'Christian world' to our ends ... You must work until 'religion' is synonymous with 'insanity' ... It is only necessary to work incessantly upon the official, using personal defamations, wild lies, false evidences and constant propaganda to make him fight for you against the church or against any practitioner. — Kenneth Goff