Koepple Quotes & Sayings

We talk of literature as if it were a mere matter of rule and measurement, a series of processes long since brought to mechanical perfection: but it would be less incorrect to say that it all lies in the future; tried by the outdoor standard, there is as yet no literature, but only glimpses and guideboards; no writer has yet succeeded in sustaining, through more than some single occasional sentence, that fresh and perfect charm. If by the training of a lifetime one could succeed in producing one continuous page of perfect cadence, it would be a life well spent, and such a literary artist would fall short of Nature's standard in quantity only, not in quality. — Brenda Wineapple

Mrs. Koepple, if God wants me to have a man in my life, He's going to have to have him walk right through that front door.
Sam from Second Chances — P.J. Fiala

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations. — Paul Cezanne

Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury. — Euripides

Know your enemy. That's what freedom really means. — Mira Grant

People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world. — Joe Strummer

Better not to give in to it. — Suzanne Collins

Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels. [Reply to the government bureaucrat of one Asian country who told him that, reason why there were workers with shovels instead of modern tractors and earth movers at a worksite of a new canal, was that: "You don't understand. This is a jobs program."] — Milton Friedman

My dad told me that when I was born my cheeks were so fat the doctors didn't know which end to spank. — Sean Covey

Truth is beauty; beauty truth and that is all you need to know — John Keats

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family. — Wayne Dyer

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity. — Henry Bromell

Democracy without morality is impossible. — Jack Kemp