Korotkin Property Quotes & Sayings

To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to miss out on things, to muff opportunities, to be persistently, organically, preposterously and ingeniously out of place. A hungry schlemiel dreams of a plate of hot soup, and hasn't a spoon. — Maurice Samuel

There cannot be creation without a lot of energy. — Emil Nolde

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction ... [n]ot even when confronted by infinity. — Gentry Lee

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories. — Virginia Henley

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider. — Dean Koontz

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there. — Rupert Everett

Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity. — Louis Rukeyser

Without pleasure there is no sight or measure. — Dejan Stojanovic

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings. — John Ortberg

I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get me started!) without having to worry about God. Or if pi isn't enough, how about fractals? or quantum mechanics? — Tom Lehrer

I'm sure that hasn't changed and he's still about as exciting as a kiddie roller coaster." And seeing as how Cat typically selected vacation destinations based on the proximity of the best amusement park, this was the highest of insults. — Christine Bell

The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection — C.S. Lewis

Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness. — Markus Zusak