Kouban Quotes & Sayings

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind. — Bryant Gumbel

We can't allow our leaders to play the old 'do as I say, not as I do' game. — Mike Medavoy

When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way. — Hod Lipson

Jenny Marzen made millions of dollars, as opposed to nickels, by writing novels that got seriously reviewed while selling big. Amy had skimmed her first one, a mildly clever thing about a philosophy professor who discovers her husband is cheating on her with one of her grad students, and who, while feigning ignorance of the affair, drives the girl mad with increasingly brutal critiques and research tasks, at one point banishing her to Beirut, first to learn fluent Arabic and then to read Avicenna's Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb, housed in the American University. This was, Amy thought, a showoffy detail that hinted at Marzen's impressive erudition but was probably arrived at within five Googling minutes. — Jincy Willett

In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. — Umberto Eco

What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man? — Bram Stoker

I was an outsider who seemed more interested in attacking what was being taught than learning from it. — Robert M. Pirsig

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy. — Julie Andrews

The fatal problem with poetry: poems. — Ben Lerner

If my dog wants to know why I didn't feed him this morning, he may want to rethink walking out of the room when I'm telling him a joke. — Dana Gould

The Muslim community is completely fractured - it doesn't really exist anymore; the only place it does exist is online. — Reza Aslan

You better get over here with my car," Grandad says. "Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it." "Sorry," I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. "Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I'd like to see. — Holly Black

We always feel the brunt of the blow dealt to us, but hardly ever do we feel the impact we have on others. Why is that? — Richelle E. Goodrich