Kurinji Quotes & Sayings

Psychological dependency of things are chains which rattle only in your head. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

You can't make a difference unless you are different. — Chris Hodges

I go to the club and can dance a little. I'm known to get down. — Malcolm David Kelley

I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that there were six extraordinary books on the shortlist. — Richard Flanagan

Stars walk among us! Just keep your expectations low because they might be going to a shoe or the loo, for that matter! — Tom Harvey

Oh, southern rappers ... so hard to write a rhyme when you only know 30 words. — Daniel Tosh

Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk! — Bette Midler

if its perfect, its good enough for me — Mike Miles

Aunt Dove stepped behind her and looked at her reflection in the cheval glass. You haven't been to India, pet, but in the Nilgiri Hills, there's a flower called a kurinji flower. It doesn't bloom often. In fact, you can go a dozen years or more without seeing a single blossom. But then, just when you've given up hope of ever seeing one, they burst into flower, whole mountainsides at the same time, carpeted in the most astonishing shades of purple. It's as if God himself shook out a rug of petals and spread it at your feet. It's unexpected and magnificent, and very much worth the wait. — Deanna Raybourn

A faint sheen of perspiration made Simone's face glow, and every part of him felt warm and alive. I want you, he thought. God, I want you. He used his free hand to cup the side of her face. Her skin was so soft ... so dewy and creamy and perfect. He wanted to touch every inch of her. He wanted to lick the salt sheen from her breasts and her belly and her legs. He wanted to taste the deep places. — Abigail Strom

Then let's use this incredible tool God has given us to assess the risks that we face every day. We have the means to analyze risks and decide which are worth taking and which should be avoided. Do you have a brain? Then use it. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world. — Ben Carson

There are many realities pocketed away in the one we call our own. Most go blindly about their lives and never see beyond the ends of their noses. — Karen Marie Moning

Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated by his student), and it surely distorts the character Mann created. Yet, we know that Mann's novella was based on a holiday in Venice he took with his wife and brother, and that while he was there he followed the reports in the German newspapers, describing the dying Mahler's progress as he returned from New York to Vienna. — Philip Kitcher

I don't go by the rule book — Princess Diana

In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991. — Peter Lynch

Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality or dispersal. But in my experience, true sex is so particular, so peculiar to the person who yearns for it. Only he or she, and no one else, would desire so very much that very person under those circumstances. In fiction, I miss that sense of terrific specificity. — Anatole Broyard