Klopkever Quotes & Sayings

Making a Fist
For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,
I felt the life sliding out of me,
a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.
I was seven, I lay in the car
watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern
past the glass.
My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin.
"How do you know if you are going to die?"
I begged my mother.
We had been traveling for days.
With strange confidence she answered,
"When you can no longer make a fist."
Years later I smile to think of that journey,
the borders we must cross separately,
stamped with our unanswerable woes.
I who did not die, who am still living,
still lying in the backseat behind all my questions,
clenching and opening one small hand. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Face devoid of darkness, Tanu kissed her on both cheeks. Live an extraordinary life, won't you, Ashi? Fate has promised me you'll make it. — Nalini Singh

It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then. — Julie James

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in. — Moon Unit Zappa

I should have known better, of course. Whenever I'm feeling up to the mark and congratulating myself, some fearful fate trips me headlong, and I find myself haring for cover with my guts churning and Nemesis in full cry after me. — George MacDonald Fraser

If you're completely off your rocker and have delusions of grandeur in which your personal existence is of special significance to the rest of the world, all hope is not lost. Mix in enough charisma and you have what it takes to start a religion ... or become a serial killer. — Edward M. Wolfe

My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.' — Dick Van Dyke

You have great athletic directors, you let them run it; you keep yourself informed, but I'm not the athletic director. I'm the president of the university. — Gordon Gee

We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality. — Greg Giraldo

If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules
If Life is a Game, Play it for Real! — Cherie Carter-Scott