Kubra Khan Quotes & Sayings

A house without books is like a room without windows. — Horace Mann

This is the real world, and only a believer walking in fellowship with His Creator and Redeemer can understand it. Everyone else is the world is experiencing a 'break with reality'. — Jim Berg

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities. — Voltaire

Behind every mystery lies another mystery. — Robert A. Heinlein

Once we determined that the money was intact, the plan was simply to buy the house. I am a lawyer, and brought with me more than — Tim Shaw

One afternoon while driving back from the beach, Hugh pointed out a McDonald's bag vomiting its contents onto the pavement. "I say that any company whose products are found on the ground automatically has to go out of business," he said. This is how we talk nowadays, as if our pronouncements hold actual weight and can be implemented at our discretion, like we're kings or warlocks. "That means no more McDonald's, no more Coke - none of it."
"That wouldn't affect you any,"I told him. Hugh doesn't drink soda or eat Big Macs. "But what if it was something you needed, like paint? I find buckets of it in the woods all the time."
"Fine," he said. "Get rid of it. I'll make my own."
If anyone could make his own paint, it would be Hugh.
"What about brushes?"
"Please," he said, and he shifted into a higher gear. "I could make those in my sleep. — David Sedaris

From the beginning, I did not intend to create a typical classic fantasy. I wanted an organic, harmonious world where my story could evolve. If this world needed gnomes, I put them in there. As for drevalyankas, pikshas, bolugs and other totally original creatures, they appeared there somehow by themselves in the course of events, and then just began "to get under the feet of the main heroes" ... — Irina Lopatina

We don't say cannot here at Shadowfell,' Tali put in firmly, silencing him. 'And we don't say impossible. — Juliet Marillier

The United States has 250 Billion tons of recoverable coal reserves - enough to last 100 years even at double the current rate of consumption.' We humans have inhabited the earth for many thousands of years, and now we can look forward to surviving for another hundred by doubling our consumption of coal? This is national security? The world-ending fire of industrial fundamentalism may already be burning in our furnaces and engines, but if it will burn for a hundred more years, that will be fine. Surely it would be better to intend straightforwardly to contain the fire and eventually put it out! But once greed has been made an honorable motive, then you have an economy without limits. It has no place for temperance or thrift or the ecological law of return. It will do anything. It is monstrous by definition. — Wendell Berry

[T]here is nothing that God hates so much as a liar. — Georges Bernanos

She suspected too late that behind his professional authority and worldly charm, the man she had married was a hopeless weakling: a poor devil made bold by the social weight of his family names. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here! — Jerry Coleman

I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans. — Jackie Chan

Schoolteachers can be some hard-eyed people, with talkin eyes; they mouth sayin one thing and them eyes be screamin another. — Alice Childress

I came back when I'd had a taste of other places and realized that I would never feel the same sense of connection to any place other than the Ozarks. — Daniel Woodrell