Kosmix Quotes & Sayings

There was once a Charcoal-burner who lived and worked by himself. A Fuller, however, happened to come and settle in the same neighbourhood; and the Charcoal-burner, having made his acquaintance and finding he was — Aesop

I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed, — Mike Cooley

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide. — Mark Twain

The good reporters of that era, those who were well educated and who were enlightened themselves and worked for enlightened organizations, liked the Kennedys and were for the same things the Kennedys were for. In addition, the particular nature of the President's personal style, his ease and confidence with reporters, his considerable skill in utilizing television, and the terrible manner in which he was killed had created a remarkable myth about him. The fact that a number of men in his Cabinet were skillful writers themselves and that in the profound sadness after his murder they wrote their own eloquent (and on occasion self-serving) versions of his presidency had strengthened that myth. — David Halberstam

What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others. — Thomas Merton

The husband beats his wife," she responded. "The neighbors don't care, and even if they complained, the man would not change. — Felix Abt

And you'll go to bed knowing you are mine and that you belong, heart and soul, to me. — Maya Banks

But no one will weep for me or for them. They have been buried, nameless, beneath five centuries of time.
I am a vampire.
My name is Vittorio, and I write this now in the tallest tower of the ruined mountaintop castle in which I was born, in the northernmost part of Tuscany, that most beautiful of lands in the very center of Italy. — Anne Rice

While it's true a small treat won't blow your budget, indulging every day could - the same way a slice of cake probably won't hurt but, if you make it a daily habit, you may have trouble fitting in your pants. — Jean Chatzky

most dangerous thing in the world is to try and leap a chasm in two jumps,'" Paul quoted with dignified seriousness. — Glenn Michaels

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis
an idea
and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see? — Esther Hicks

Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population. — Gabriel Luna

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do. — William James