Klus Design Quotes & Sayings

The sight of a being who is not graced by any touch of a pure and good will but who yet enjoys an uninterrupted prosperity can never delight a rational and impartial spectator. Thus a good will seems to constitute the indispensable condition of being even worthy of happiness. — Immanuel Kant

Birdscapes moves rather like those swallows, dipping and swerving to pick up all sorts of items of interest. Mynott tells plenty of good birding tales, but these serve mainly to set off trains of reflection ... Reading Birdscapes is like going birding with a learned, witty, and somewhat irreverent companion who isn't satisfied just to check things off ... [D]elightful to read on a journey or a housebound day, and [opens] fascinating new horizons for anyone who wants to enlarge his or her interest in birds. — Robert O. Paxton

...it is easier to make powerful ideas practical than it is to make pedestrian ideas powerful. — David Novak

The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter. — Harlan Coben

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks. — Shelley Duvall

Bull markets are immense fun, until they cease to be immense fun. — Ashton Marshall

We live in an era of social science, and have become accustomed to understanding the social world in terms of "forces," "pressures," "processes," and "developments." It is easy to forget that those "forces" are statistical summaries of the deeds of millions of men and women who act on their beliefs in pursuit of their desires. The habit of submerging the individual into abstractions can lead not only to bad science (it's not as if the "social forces" obeyed Newton's laws) but to dehumanization. — Steven Pinker

He was "distinguished" to the tips of his polished nails, and there was not a movement of his fine perpendicular person that was not noble and majestic. Newman had never yet been confronted with such an incarnation of the art of taking oneself seriously; he felt a sort of impulse to step backward, as you do to get a view of a great facade. — Henry James

On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew. — Stephen King

Success will not happen through (os.mo.sis), osmosis. — Jon Jones

I don't think it's spiritually economic to be a skeptic about absolutely everything. — Beth Nugent

To go fast, row slowly. — Norman Vincent Peale

I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic. — Anurag Kashyap

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society. — Jim Ryun

Consciousness of the world itself is nature. And when you destroy nature you block off consciousness from the world. — Matthew Donnelly