Kosmalakorner Quotes & Sayings

A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom, fantasies. At the same time, that's where my creativity can be found. If I tried to control it and make it more mature, it wouldn't be good at all. It'd be uninteresting, without any vivacity. — Karl Ove Knausgard

All cell phones in the air 'cause I want to see you guys shine. — Blake Lewis

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do. — Yahoo Serious

High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper. — Carl Guardino

People's reaction to me is sometimes "Uch, I just don't like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great." But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave. — Mindy Kaling

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger. — George Eliot

Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create. — Maria Montessori

The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated ... This prescription, unfortunately, has proven to be yet another in a long list of nouveau homilies that haven't lived up to their promises. — John Rosemond

I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing. — Denis Healey

He is quiet for a minute, then turns his head to look at me. "Where were you when I was twelve?"
"Well, I was nine." I cut my eyes over to him. "And probably locked in the back of a Ho-Ho truck, eating my way to freedom. Yeah, that really happened. — Nicole Christie

Sometime in your past you entered a social situation (usually overstimulating to begin with) and felt that you failed. Others said you did something wrong — Elaine N. Aron

We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other. — Julio Cortazar

I am the sharpest pencil because I live outside the box. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Cured?" Goss said. "Would you cure a singer of his voice? — Ursula K. Le Guin

My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others. — Matthew Perry