Koppen System Quotes & Sayings

Directing is like looking at the stars on a cloudless night. You get away from all light sources, and you look up, and you see 50 points of light. And a minute later 100 and another minute later 1,000 and then 10,000. And then this swirling gigantic carpet above you, and somehow it all seems to connect. — Russell Crowe

Homecoming is a single word, and we use it to describe a single event. But true homecoming requires more time. It seems to be a process rather than a moment. Perhaps we come home the way the earth comes home to the sun. It could be that homecoming is always a return and our understanding of home deepens with each encounter. — Christie Purifoy

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone. — Franz Kafka

Every service had a price. Every object a value. If someone made you a sword, you paid him the appropriate amount or traded something of equal value with him. If a man saved your life, you either paid him the amount you considered that life worth, or you saved his in return. Until either of those things was transacted, you were in his debt. It was business. And if Balthazar believed in anything with religious fervor, it was that. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Today Arnold Schwarzenegger made another major announcement. He said his lieutenant governor will be Xena, Warrior Princess. — Jay Leno

I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind. — Reinhold Niebuhr

When people grow old and look back on their lives, they don't regret what they did, they regret what they didn't do. — Joan Caraganis Jakobson

The lack of energy struck unfairly keen when Mo bounced into the stables. Just had to come by before I headed off to the hell of school. — Nora Roberts

Fasting is a constant means of renewing yourself spiritually. — Jentezen Franklin

Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life — Paul Theroux

We can never give up longing and wishing while we are throughly alive — George Eliot

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness. — Michael Polanyi

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats. — John F. Kennedy

Love was now a mild streamlet that advanced in drips around my feet; despite how hard I worked at tenderness, I could not drown in a thing that shallow. — Darin Strauss

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. — Gilbert Adair