Kurkuma Quotes & Sayings

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash. — J.D. Salinger

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms. — Lorna Luft

It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be. — Chelsea Handler

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me. — Margaret Atwood

She'd loved him too much and given too much of herself away in the process. She had given him everything and never demanded anything in return. Why was she surprised that when she finally did, he refused? — Monica McCarty

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful. — Howard Nemerov

You know before you know, of course. You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks up your backbone. You stare at the man you love and you are staring at nothing; he is gone before he is gone. — Elizabeth Berg

Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving. — Benjamin Spock

THE STRIKING CONTRAST — Erwin Schrodinger