Kositstan Quotes & Sayings

I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy. — Mike Mills

Very few people live in the same house they move into when they're married or the same neighborhood when they're married. Very few people certainly live in the neighborhood they grew up in. — Mike Barnicle

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away. — Mel Tillis

Fortune never helps the fainthearted. — Sophocles

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. — Iris Murdoch

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive. — Tahar Rahim

1] The absence of the personal story: in order for magical rites to pass from generation to generation, the sorcerer (shaman) must forget all he learned before his initiation into magic. According to tradition, a man or women who are tied to his past, will in the end allow himself to be governed by his parents' way of thinking, or that of the society in which he lives. This is why all those who are initiated choose a new name and seek to free themselves from their memories, both good and bad. — Paulo Coelho

Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis: You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! — Graham Chapman

One who has hope lives differently. — Pope Benedict XVI

The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world. — Frederick Lenz

As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Sure, sis!' Then he raised his hands in a stop everything gesture. 'I feel a haiku coming on. — Rick Riordan

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way ... — Jeff Goldblum

Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight. — Dan Simmons