Knopf Publishing Quotes & Sayings

My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there ... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world. — Rula Jebreal

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change. — Martin McDonagh

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening. — Marlon Brando

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense. — Miguel De Unamuno

You don't mention death when it's hovering near someone you love. You don't want t attract the reaper's attention. — Amie Kaufman

A good company offers excellent products and services. A great company also offers excellent products and services but also strives to make the world a better place. — Philip Kotler

If I should make a mistake, it could never be set right in your lifetime. — Charles Dickens

Out with it, Tarrou! What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?"
"I don't know. My code of morals, perhaps."
"Your code of morals? What code?"
"Comprehension."
Camus, Albert (2012-08-08). The Plague (Vintage International) (Kindle Locations 1767-1769). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. — Albert Camus

The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more. — Ernest Hemingway,

Friendship is a sheltering tree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I don't think there has been any mayor in America scrutinized that way. I don't think there has been any mayor as a matter of fact, Coleman Young I think received an incredible amount of scrutiny and he was kind of the poster child for that in Detroit. He was the first Black mayor who really expressed his manhood in a different way than had been seen from African-American man that was projected across the country. — Kwame Kilpatrick

When you judge someone you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa

What I'm really focused on is the majesty of the best films I see are films that don't panhandle for an extra laugh later, but actually deliver the goods. And when the screen goes black, you go, Yes. — James Mangold

Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected. — Pythagoras

Knowing before ever seeing it that her ass was like a stationary drop of water on a flower stem — Brian McGreevy