Kuritzkes Quotes & Sayings

The dividing line [between friends and acquaintances] is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass thing that enters your mind. With acquaintances, you are forever aware of their slightly unreal image of you, and to keep them content, you edit yourself to fit. Many marriages are between acquaintances. You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another will remain an acquaintance for thirty years. — John D. MacDonald

Mark my words, Messner: the world is waiting, it's licking its chops, to take your boy away.'" "And my — Philip Roth

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal. — Victoria Principal

We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream — Cynthia Sue Larson

They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding that we are tiny people on a tiny little earth suspended in an endless void that echoes past stars and stars of stars. — Donald Miller

Overshadowing all Roosevelt's decisions, Perkins wrote, "was his feeling that nothing in human judgment is final. One may courageously take the step that seems right today because it can be modified tomorrow if it does not work well." He was an improviser, not a planner. He took a step and adjusted, a step and adjusted. Gradually a big change would emerge. — David Brooks

To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's words to their logical or grammatical connotations. — Octavio Paz

True liberty comes with the abandonment of self in our worshiping God, freeing us to worship in His way, not ours. — Ray Hughes

Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a mind that is purely feminine, — Virginia Woolf

The era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and North American natural gas extraction rates already in decline. These events will have enormous implications for America's petroleum-dependent food system — Richard Heinberg

Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform ... and so you think you can be rude to me. — Morrissey

Insight is a perception beyond the thought, a multi-dimensional cognizance, and it's the experience to explore oneself, surrounds and beyond. — Pearl Zhu

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone. — William Faulkner

Unbridled commerce isn't generally pretty, but it's always forward-thinking. — Richard Ford