Krizmanici Quotes & Sayings

The only thing that you can get into without a lot of trouble is a lot of trouble. — Bill Cosby

Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience. — Regina Spektor

All diseases and disorders have some spiritual connection and serve as stepping stones for us to listen to and learn from. — Marlo Morgan

The past was like a handful of sand you thought you were squeezing tightly, but which had already run out through the cracks between your fingers. Memory was a river that had run dry long ago, leaving only scattered gravel in a lifeless riverbed. He had lived life always looking out for the next thing, and whenever he had gained, he had also lost, leaving him with little in the end. — Liu Cixin

It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand? — Neil Gaiman

How like an angel came I down! — Thomas Traherne

The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as much more than interesting historical documents from centuries past. But read in aggregate, all that pain piles up. Essentially, Elder has amassed a collection of what people say when they know they are going to die, the final product of what could be seen as psychological torture. — Jonathan Messinger

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer. — Mel Torme

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is. — James F. Cooper

It's not normal to be afraid of happiness, but I've learned over time that for each day of happy I get five of not so much. — Jordan Silver

Don't think shoot. Soon as you start thinking you miss. — Steve Kerr

People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or if it's depression. Sometimes the drugs work and sometimes they don't. Sometimes the drugs work for a while and then they stop. Sometimes the alternative stuff works and sometimes it doesn't. And sometimes you wonder if no outside interference makes any difference at all; if an illness is like a storm, if it simply has to run its course and, at the end of it, depending on how robust you are, you will be alive. Or you will be dead. — Marian Keyes

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy. — Stevie Smith

Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me. — Matthew Bourne