Kokneses Quotes & Sayings

We shall give up the things of childhood --
gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets. — Norman Spinrad

Home is a complex and resonant idea. — Gregory Allen Howard

She is a woman, and what women want, they get, and if the world and all it holds must be broken in the getting, then so be it. — Bernard Cornwell

Idleness leads to insolence. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers. — Robert Giroux

Canada has become such a staging area for Chinese money. — Kevin Kwan

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish. — Karl Lagerfeld

But there's that thing with secrets, too, how they take over your head, feeding on your every thought, growing bigger all the time until the day comes they're so heavy you can't walk. — Debbie Howells

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe