Kofman Auditorium Quotes & Sayings

Your word is the only thing you can give and keep at the same time. — Carlos Wallace

It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand? — Neil Gaiman

God, you're gorgeous, I blurt out and want to die because I can't believe I said it aloud and neither can he - his smile, so huge now, he can't even get any words past it. — Jandy Nelson

One whose spirit and mental strength have been strengthened by sparring with a never-say-die attitude should find no challenge too great to handle. One who has undergone long years of physical pain and mental agony to learn one punch, one kick, should be able to face any task, no matter how difficult, and carry it through to the end. A person like this can truly be said to have learned karate. — Gichin Funakoshi

We need to get our minds right, because right now we are behaving as if we are out of our right minds. — Carlos Wallace

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that! — Anna Sui

What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding? — Hermann Hesse

He who is the servant of all is their true master. He never becomes a leader in whose love there is a consideration of high or low. He whose love knows no end and never stops to consider high or low has the whole world lying at his feet. — Swami Vivekananda

A reader is the total of all he's read, in addition to all the films and television he's seen. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG. — Frank Gaffney

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there. — Babatunde Adebimpe

For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me. — Mitch Albom

Home is where you hang your hat. — Leon Redbone

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check. — Charles Barkley

It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible. — Charlie Parker