Kurketrekker Quotes & Sayings

A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that is childhood becomes smaller and smaller, more and more distant, more and more faded, though they say at the end of life the beginning returns with renewed vividness, as though you had sailed all the way around the world and were going back into the darkness from which you came. — Rebecca Solnit

Why were women alone responsible for sheltering men from the sexual desires women supposedly elicited in men? Why could men not control themselves? Why, if men were the ones being tempted, were they not the ones being policed? — Mona Eltahawy

I must learn to love the fool in me
the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of my human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my Fool. — Theodore Isaac Rubin

As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder officially existed. — Scott Stossel

A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife. — Ruth Reichl

I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook. — Henry Hill

I consider Anne of Green Gables to be a mentor, Jane Austen to be a writing hero, and the Bard a fellow name freak like myself. — Lorilee Craker

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. — George Eliot

I try to always be in touch with my emotions so that I'm mentally clear. — Kristin Cavallari

believe you can and you're already halfway there — Theodore Roosevelt

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous! — Frederick Franck

When I came down south, I went to one of the early Wigan Challenge Cup victories at Wembley, and I was totally hooked from then. — Kevin Whately

They would have the use of my moist and intricate cranial recesses,
the joyous bicycle rides of my uninhibited psyche, but they were going
to put me in a new tax bracket. — Jon Woodson

First you must believe there is a soul."
"Do you?"
"If by a soul one means the creature who lives within each of us, a creature born loving, born joyful, but who with each wordly blow shrinks more deeply into its shell until at last, the poor desiccated thing is unrecognizable, even to its own self, yes. I do. — Lynn Cullen

At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure. — Barbara Ehrenreich