Kohonen Self Quotes & Sayings

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person ... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going. — Phyllis A. Whitney

Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His time did not travel; it was a block of persisting nows. — Richard Powers

Memory is a poet, not a historian. — Paul Geraldy

All knowledge is born in the mind, and circumstances make them manifest. — Abhijit Naskar

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. — Layne Staley

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The last madness I'll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me. — Gerard De Nerval

What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her homework. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word, they displayed towards her an attitude that was so antediluvian it was almost comical. You shouldn't worry your pretty head over complex matters, little girl. — Stieg Larsson

We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do. — Dave Blood

You can tell a lot about a man from how he treats his dog, — Jim Butcher

By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime. — Moshe Sharett

I am a big David Bowie fan. — Kristen Wiig

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country. — Ambrose Bierce

Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them. — Jo Brand