Kukailimoku Quotes & Sayings

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. — Oscar Wilde

Post kept bound books with typed lists of gifts sent and received ... jeweler Harry Winston sent her a box of cheese — Estella M. Chung

Death is not free. Its price is life. — Nina George

Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner. — William James

It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed.
Very odd, isn't it. — Josephine Tey

Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business! — Charles Dickens

As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes. — Darren Star

I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear. — Brian Setzer

I have no intention of raising taxes — William J. Clinton

She breathed that air he'd forgotten, of high-school loveliness, come uninvited to bloom in the shadow of railroad overpasses, alongside telephone poles, within earshot of highways with battered aluminum center strips, out of mothers gone to lard and fathers ground down by gray days of work and more work, in an America littered with bottlecaps and pull-tabs and pieces of broken muffler. — John Updike

Since taking are of one small baby is the hardest job on earth, I am constantly late, as I am today. — Sally Koslow

Once a transition of value creates an emotion, feeling comes into play. Although they're often mistaken for each other, feeling is not emotion. Emotion is a short-term experience that peaks and burns rapidly. Feeling is a long-term, pervasive, sentient background that colors whole days, weeks, even years of our lives. Indeed, a specific feeling often dominates a personality. Each of the core emotions in life - pleasure and pain - has many variations. So which particular negative or positive emotion will we experience? The answer is found in the feeling that surrounds it. For, like adding pigment to a pencil sketch or an orchestra to a melody, feeling makes emotion specific. — Robert McKee

I have a whole world of victims outside these walls. — Alessandra Torre

The river that flows in you also flows in me. — Kabir