Kopchains Quotes & Sayings

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. — Peter Ustinov

Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom. — Thomas Sowell

I haven't written anything yet that makes me think, This is it! and I don't imagine I ever will. I don't know how it is with you, but when I finish something, even when I'm pleased with the results, it never quite matches the shimmering vision that was out ahead of me as I wrote. — Debra Dean

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness. — Kurt Vonnegut

Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction. — Edward Carey

You don't get to see your family much. In the movie business, directors often go out of town for long periods of time, and even if you're in town, you're working 14-15 hour days. People tend to not balance out the important things in their lives with their career. — Jon Favreau

A diplomatic statement, Lena, is a statement of which everything is true but the sentiment which seems to prompt it. — Joseph Conrad

What was a person, if not the things they knew and the face they wore? — Catherynne M Valente

We'll serve, on a good Saturday night six or seven thousand people in all the restaurants, and it's like, the percentages are that maybe one person's not going to like what they get. And I can't be there to fix it. I hate that. We're in this business to make things that please people. — Todd English

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam. — Feisal Abdul Rauf

The first time it happens, it can be explained. Accident. Experiment. Fluke. Everything was confusing. The lines blurred.
The second time is when it really happens for the first time. — Leah Raeder

A calling is that thing that you can't not do, an answer to the age-old question, "What should I do with my life? — Jeff Goins

The horses have stopped
their clippity-clop,
but feet are too slow
for where I must go.
So here I shall stay
until light of day
when clippity-clop
gets my team underway. — Richelle E. Goodrich

If you were away from home, you had to use a phone attached by a wire to the wall. It was terrible. — Terry Pratchett