Kokoist Quotes & Sayings

The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. — Carl Sagan

I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right, and exercise, and lose weight, and watch what I eat, and I will be fine for the rest of my life. — Tom Hanks

You call it Loneliness, I call it Solitude. — Asma'u Shaheedah

I would never say no to that [marriage] . It hasn't been my path up to this point. I think it would be nice to look forward to that. Meeting somebody of that caliber of "Yes, I want to spend my life with you." Of course, why not. I love the fact that that is legal in every state. — Dave Koz

What was a coincidence, Moody thought, but a stilled moment in a sequence that had yet to be explained? — Eleanor Catton

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. — Henry Ward Beecher

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. — Henri Matisse

If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back. — John Le Carre

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. — Oscar Wilde

I'd heard the boys at school say you needed to run after your first drink, to get the alcohol working. It got you drunk faster. I didn't bother with that. I wish drinking Brandivo, a foul, sultana-flavoured brew. I took a painful gulp of it, and watched as a possum came gripping along the wire of a telegraph pole, not knowing the death humming along beside it. Its eyes were filmed with light as it reached the safety of wood, and then it went down face first like a lizard. — Tegan Bennett Daylight

I was dead. That was the only explanation for this. I had made it to a place where little, sexy, dirty angels made men's fantasies come to life. — Abbi Glines

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb? — Aaron Swartz

They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia. — George C. Wallace

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me. — Henry Villard