Kolken And Kolken Quotes & Sayings

One morning after a beautiful fall of snow, I had reason to write a letter to an acquaintance, but I omitted to make any mention of the snow. I was delighted when she responded, 'Do you expect me to pay any attention to the words of someone so perverse that he fails to enquire how I find this snowy landscape? What deplorable insensitivity! — Yoshida Kenko

Every mother has the miraculous ability of momentary blindness. — Ania Ahlborn

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution. — Vladimir Lenin

I'm not an intellectual - Fascism has no need of that. What is wanted is the deed. Theory derives from action. What our corporate state demands from us is comprehension of the social forces - of history. You — Philip K. Dick

Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go? — Sarah Orne Jewett

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me. — Esperanza Spalding

When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park. — Madonna Ciccone

Being a leading man ... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen. — Steve Carell

Life's a sequence of gambles. You're going to win some. You're going to lose some. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't play the game. — Nicole Williams

The life of a fool is worse than death[1]. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides. — Alexander Kotov

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough. — H.L. Mencken

They're two types of people; those who are busy being about it and those who talk about it. — Mirjana Puhar

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity. — Benjamin Disraeli