Kosimatu Quotes & Sayings

The folly at the root of this foolish economy began with the idea that a corporation should be regarded, legally, as "a person. — Wendell Berry

I study every quivering branch, every imposing soldier, every window I can count. My eyes are two professional pickpockets, stealing everything to store away in my mind. — Tahereh Mafi

Governors and legislators wanted the hostiles held in check and the bandits hung, but they wanted it all to be done with the fewest possible men on the cheapest possible horses. It irritated Call and infuriated Augustus. — Larry McMurtry

I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs. — Meg Cabot

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — Gloria Steinem

There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs. — Gerald Vizenor

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet. — William Boyd

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up. — Jonathan Kellerman

It took a lot of water to down just that f-king bat's head, let me tell you. It's still stuck in my f-king throat, after all these years. People all over the world say, 'You're the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?' It happened f-king once, for Christ's sake. — Ozzy Osbourne

She was exactly like her house, expensive and elegant, but not at all comfortable. — Joshilyn Jackson

Fictions are useful so long as they are taken as fictions. They are then
simply ways of "figuring" the world which we agree to follow so that
we can act in cooperation, as we agree about inches and hours, numbers
and words, mathematical systems and languages. If we have no
agreement about measures of time and space, I would have no way of
making a date with you at the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth
Avenue at 3 P.M. on Sunday, April 4. — Alan W. Watts

When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality. — Walt Disney

The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities of the country; from the smell of its soil, the pattern of its fields, the beauty of its scenery and from the men and women who dwell and toil in the rural areas — George Stapledon

For ages men had used sticks to club and spear each other - Anaximander of Miletus used the stick to measure time. — Carl Sagan