Kressmann Quotes & Sayings

Skating was popular, but it wasn't mainstream. It had this underground following, and you could go on tours, win decent prize money, and make royalties from signature products - that's how I came to buy a house when I was a senior in high school. — Tony Hawk

Diplomas can't replace self-development. — Sunday Adelaja

Lust dazzles, sure, at least for the short term. But love clears the vision. You see better, sharper, because you feel more than you did before. — J.D. Robb

Where the earth is, we are. — Walt Whitman

And how many ideas have there been upon earth, in human history, which only ten years earlier were unimaginable and which suddenly appeared when their mysteriously appointed season arrived, to go spreading all over the earth? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The number of individuals who know how to make a can of Coke is zero. The number of individual nations that could produce a can of Coke is zero. This famously American product is not American at all. Invention and creation is something we are all in together. Modern tool chains are so long and complex that they bind us into one people and one planet. — Anonymous

Does the surgeon spare the cancer because he must cut to remove it? We are cruel. Of course we are cruel. — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

The worm hissed. "You said it couldn't see!" shouted Oates, forgetting Umber's instruction to be silent. He shook a fist. "We all heard it, Umber! You specifically said, it couldn't see!"
"I know-isn't it wonderful to learn something new?" Umber laughed. — P.W. Catanese

When I lost my way, and When the road was too long, I was muttering to myself. Life is just that way ... — Ayumi Hamasaki

To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on. — Simon Van Booy

The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble. — Robert Krulwich

I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is. — Jenny Slate

I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25. — Rachel Zoe

Mercy reflects the presence of the Lord in your heart and your life. — Elizabeth George

I think my immediate reaction was, "I'm so tired. I need a little more time." But, it was very quickly followed up by excitement. It's very flattering, and it's a wonderful vote of confidence. We dream of getting to do what we do. — Jenji Kohan