Kosmatec Quotes & Sayings

I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable. — Marc Jacobs

The case of the general talk of "progress" is, indeed, an extreme one. As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. We meet every ideal of religion, patriotism, beauty, or brute pleasure with the alternative ideal of progress - that is to say, we meet every proposal of getting something that we know about, with an alternative proposal of getting a great deal more of nobody knows what. — G.K. Chesterton

You'd tell me if we were getting married, wouldn't you? I mean, you wouldn't just appear on my doorstep one day and say we were due at the church in an hour. — Janet Evanovich

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. — Roald Dahl

Writing is the hardest physical work there is. — Tom Robbins

I would love to see churches start using their Web sites to present video profiles of people within their congregations so that the average person could get a sense of what the life of the church (not the organization, but the people - the true church) is really like. — Frank Minis Johnson

A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate. — China Mieville

To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others. — Bill Crawford

My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me. — Steve Garvey

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned. — Xun Zi

To avoide the tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to: I will settle as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of paralleles, or gemowe [twin] lines of one lengthe: =, bicause noe .2. thynges, can be moare equalle. — Robert Recorde

Instead of ignoring our differences, we need to accept and transcend them. — Sheryl Sandberg

This doctor had no point whatsoever. Medicine was just to make money and never for love of his profession or of the sick. He was careless and thought poverty was ugly. He worked for the poor while hating having to deal with them. For him they were the rejects of a very high society to which he too didn't belong. He knew he was out-of-date with medicine and clinical novelties but it was good enough for poor people. His dream was to have money to do exactly what he wanted: nothing. — Clarice Lispector

For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands. — Eric Cantona