Kulture Quotes & Sayings

A comparative adjective is appropriate when the two items are being directly contrasted, one against the other; a superlative can work when an item is superior not just to the alternative in view at the time but to a larger implicit comparison group. — Steven Pinker

When you discover that you are living in a fantasy that cannot endure, a fantasy that will destroy your world, and your children, what do you do?
People said things like, Fuck it, or Fuck the future. They said things like, The day is warm, or This meal is excellent, or Let's go to the lake and swim. — Kim Stanley Robinson

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about? — Beck

I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all down the air; and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks. — Annie Dillard

If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help. — Irving Kirsch

The deaths - tiny ones, false ones, real ones - we undertake in the name of love are the closest that we ever come to greatness. — Amanda Lee Koe

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You can disappear here without knowing it. — Bret Easton Ellis

I didn't know which was worse: to be killed by some brute animal or be taken off with a wild Neanderthal on horseback. — Anna Carey

I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself. — Susan Boyle

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing. — Jenna Bush

Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream. — Walt Whitman

How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art? Is it just Kulture Klash? No, since most of the time there's no Klash at all. On the occasions when we disagree, it may be because we're looking for different things in dance. — Robert Gottlieb

If God had not grievance to all, we will not have survived up to the time we repented — Sunday Adelaja