Knucklebones Game Quotes & Sayings

I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British. — John Mahoney

I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius. — Kate Zambreno

I didn't think I'd ever eat pork; it just does not appeal to me. — Bill Callahan

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. — D.H. Lawrence

The distinction, therefore, between general names, and individual or singular names, is fundamental; and may be considered as the first grand division of names. — John Stuart Mill

Our dreams and stories may contain implicit aspects of our lives even without our awareness. In fact, storytelling may be a primary way in which we can linguistically communicate to others - as well as to ourselves - the sometimes hidden contents of our implicitly remembering minds. Stories make available perspectives on the emotional themes of our implicit memory that may otherwise be consciously unavailable to us. This may be one reason why journal writing and intimate communication with others, which are so often narrative processes, have such powerful organizing effects on the mind: They allow us to modulate our emotions and make sense of the world. — Daniel J. Siegel

I remember all the things we said we'd do
And how not a single thing we said was true — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. — Thomas Jefferson

By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero, when he says (De Oratore, 2): 'men who are accustomed to hard daily toil, when by reason of the weather they are kept from their work, betake themselves to playing with a ball, or with knucklebones or with dice, or they may also contrive for themselves some new game at their leisure.' — Gerolamo Cardano

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D. — Jamie Oliver

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness. — Karen Allen

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating. — Ruth Rendell

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly, and then quickly expand. — Sam Altman

Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. An entrepreneur's dream is often a kind of madness, and it is almost as isolating. What differentiates the entrepreneur from the crazy person is that the former gets other people to believe in his vision. — Anita Roddick

And the Crooked Man heard her dreams, because that was where he wandered. His place was the land of the imagination, the world where stories began. The stories were always looking for a way to be told, to be brought to life through books and reading. That was how they crossed over from their world into ours. But with them came the Crooked Man, prowling between his world and ours, looking for stories of his own to create, hunting for children who dreamed bad dreams, who were jealous and angry and proud. And he made kings and queens of them, cursing them with a kind of power, even if the real power lay always in his hands. And in return they betrayed the objects of their jealousy to him, and he took them into his lair deep beneath the castle ... — John Connolly