Kurken Quotes & Sayings

I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen. — Benedict Cumberbatch

How wide is all this long pretense!
There is in love a sweetness ready penned,
Copy out only that, and save expense. — George Herbert

If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.
If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong. — Neil Gaiman

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule. — Satyajit Ray

Other people as a rule mean so little to us that, when we have invested one of them with the power to cause us so much suffering or happiness, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe, is surrounded with poetry, makes of one's life a sort of stirring arena in which he or she will be more or less close to one. — Marcel Proust

If you're not interested in history, if you're living for the day, you need some sort of cliche hook. I certainly don't think of myself as a cult anything. It's a strange thing to even consider pursuing. — Leon Redbone

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies. — Byron Katie

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is ... — Carl Sagan

Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question How do I look? — Haruki Murakami

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale. — Ingrid Newkirk

Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth. — Lucretius