Kopfkissen Quotes & Sayings

181. Pharmakon means drug, but as Jacques Derrida and others have pointed out, the word in Greek famously refuses to designate whether poison or cure. It holds both in the bowl. In the dialogues Plato uses the word to refer to everything from an illness, its cause, its cure, a recipe, a charm, a substance, a spell, artificial color, and paint. — Maggie Nelson

Treat yourself like a fast person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck
you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.
Push: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, p. 214 — Chalene Johnson

Sagacious agent could, I suppose, be desired, — Jack London

And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway. — Andrea Gibson

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at. — Maria Edgeworth

Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost. — Miranda July

There is not a man who has been in this community a few years but knows I am telling the living truth. Do any of you hate me for it? Do any of you love me for it? It is all the same to me. — Brigham Young

The thing you are passionate about is not random; it stems from an inner yearning. Don't ignore it or allow others to talk you out of it. Go get it! — Steve Maraboli

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished. — Theodore Roosevelt

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. — Lee Iacocca

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. — Quintilian

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is. — Marcel Proust

Autumn
The cheerful sundial;
it falls in the shadow
of thy leaves.
there
where your branches
brace themselves
against the gate of heaven — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I can enjoy an Arsenal-Chelsea match without having to worry about getting exclusive quotes afterwards from one of the participants as he makes his way to his Bentley. I was never very good at steaming up to someone and engaging them in conversation like that. — Steve Rushin