Kokteil Quotes & Sayings

You're just too poor to get rich. — Bill James

After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported. — Adam Smith

But perhaps the most compelling benefit for doing biblical theology is that it deepens our understanding of and facility with the gospel. — Thabiti M. Anyabwile

We're only as sick as our secrets. — Stephen King

Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people's dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings. — Wendell Berry

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world. — Ralph Waldo Trine

The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader. — Charles Simic

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. — Leonard Maltin

In many cases it is not one series of consequences will serve the turn, but many different and opposite deductions must be examined and laid together, before a man can come to make a right judgment of the point in question. What then can be expected from men that neither see the want of any such kind of reasoning as this, nor, if they do, know they how to set about it, or could perform it? — John Locke

She slapped him. Hard. "Tell me!" she screamed, "TELL ME!".
"The truth is...I am a liar," Jack said quietly.
"Don't be one with me," she sobbed, "it hurts."
"The lies or the truth?" he asked. — Abhik Chatterjee

On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.' — Caroline Knapp