Kuchs Oxford Quotes & Sayings

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I must do what I can to make myself intelligible to you. Our natures, however, are so different, that this may not be easy. Men and women live but to die; we, that is such as I-we are but a few-live to live on. Old age is to you a horror; to me it is a dear desire: the older we grow, the nearer we are to our perfection. Your perfection is a poor thing, comes soon, and lasts but a little while; ours is a ceaseless ripening. I am not yet ripe, and have lived thousands of your years-how many, I never cared to note. The everlasting will not be measured. — George MacDonald

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is. — Stanislaw Ulam

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
[Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1963] — John F. Kennedy

Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be. — Gorgias

One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him. — Mahatma Gandhi

Once he gets to the fort the colonel turns to John Wayne and says, "I did see a few Indians on the way over here." And John Wayne, with this really cool look on his face, replies, 'Don't worry. If you were able to spot some Indians, that means there weren't any there.' I don't remember the actual lines, but it went something like that. Do you get what he means? — Haruki Murakami

Books. The more I thought about how to stop and get myself back together as one sane, whole person, the more I thought about books. I thought about escape. Not running to escape but reading to escape. Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that "words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living." That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again. — Nina Sankovitch

We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus. — Christopher Guest

The little black dress expresses a moment of freedom and individuality every time. — Andre Leon Talley

You're not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people. — Tony Shalhoub