Kovacka Quotes & Sayings

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion. — Ellen DeGeneres

Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,
let him assume that you ain't smarter than him. — Toba Beta

The uncertainty, the fear of the unknown was driving him, almost to the point of desperation. He felt as if he was going down a dark stairway, missing a step, hurtling into the unknown and having no idea where he would land. — Ken Puddicombe

To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up. — V.S. Naipaul

Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment when

the wolf, the mongering wolf
who stands outside the self

lay lightly down, and slept. — Maxine Kumin

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. — Brian Eno

Everybody thinks I drink beer but I actually like cider! — Prince William

So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write. — George Lopez

At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers. — T.C. Boyle

She was even grateful at first for this backdoor entry into the New York art scene, although rather quickly she came to think of it as entering a peacock through its rectum. — Tom Robbins

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility. — Desmond Tutu

The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground. — Ethel Waters

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously. — Salman Rushdie