Krynska Quotes & Sayings

[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him. — Mary Kingsley

Dan Lynch was chuckling, his hand around his small glass. 'I remember Billy saying that AA was a Protestant thing when you came right down to it. Started by a bunch of Protestants. He said he didn't like the chummy way some of them were always calling Our Lord by his first name. I drove him to the first meeting and waited to take him home, 'cause Maeve didn't want him driving, and when he came out he said you could tell who the Catholics were because they'd all been bowing their heads every ten seconds while the Protestants bantered on about Jesus, Jesus Jesus.'
(And sure enough, up and down our stretch of table, heads bobbed at the name.) — Alice McDermott

I'd like to see people worry less about their inner child and more about their outer adult. — Ron Bennington

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music. — Lisa Marie Presley

research into why people commit suicide. Do you know what they found the most common cause was?' 'That was the sort of thing I was hoping you could answer.' Harry had to slalom between people on the narrow pavement to keep up with the tubby psychologist. 'That they didn't want to live any longer,' Aune said. 'Sounds like someone deserves a Nobel Prize. — Jo Nesbo

For the mountains shall depart — Bryn Terfel

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. — Alan Shearer

You miss the whole point, Pastor. What I did was wrong, but I couldn't stop myself. Why couldn't I stop myself? Because of what I am. I wasn't born this way. I became a man with a lot of problems, not because of my DNA, but because of what society demanded. Lock ' em up. Punish the hell out of them. And if you make a few monsters along the way, to bad. — John Grisham

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins. — Parker Posey

People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next "horrifying" event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound "heals" it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be said after one of these so-called tragedies is, "Let the scarring begin. — George Carlin

The software programs that make our body run ... were evolved in very different times. We'd like to actually change those programs. One little software program, called the fat insulin receptor gene, basically says, 'Hold onto every calorie, because the next hunting season may not work out so well.' That was in the interests of the species tens of thousands of years ago. We'd like to turn that program off. — Ray Kurzweil

You can never plan anything, you're never guaranteed anything. As long as I'm getting the work and it's quality then I'm happy. But you never know. — Danny Dyer

But right now, he couldn't help but wish the guy looked a little less like he belonged in underwear commercials and a little more like he belonged under a bridge. — Julie Ann Walker

The more boldly a man dares, the more richly his land bears — Yu Hua