Quotes & Sayings About Kurtz Mistress

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary. — Fumito Ueda

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water. — George Eliot

Two people creating the time of their own lives, protected somehow by love, not ignorant of history but not deformed by it, either. — Zadie Smith

What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't know, Brooksie, he said, I don't remember. That was unimaginable, not remembering where a book has come from! and where it was bought from! That was part of the whole history, the whole point, of any book that you owned! And when you picked it up later in the house at home, you knew, you just knew by looking and having it in your hand, where it came from and where you got it and when and why you'd decided to buy it. — Ali Smith

There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those of Chinese descent, before they decide to engage in academic research in China. — Jerome A. Cohen

When I was six, Hitler, who had become rather a nuisance, launched a sustained attempt to destroy Liverpool, and though we lived several miles from the vulnerable docks target, our Childwall suburb became too close for comfort and safety. — Brian Epstein

Superman never said, 'I think I'll let Batman take this one today'. — Erin Nicholas

You don't get a chance to adjust and finagle, and decide that you really didn't intend to do that anyway, and readjust your objectives to make yourself look better. You never just focus on what you've accomplished for the year; you focus on what you've accomplished relative to exactly what you said you were going to accomplish - no matter how tough the measure. That was a discipline learned at Abbott, and that we carried into Amgen.3 — James C. Collins

Conversations were struck up between strangers, regular diners as well as infrequent customers, as if united by a sense of gratitude at the sheer unlikeliness of it all - a high achievement of industrial civilisation that deserved to remain for everyone, but which has now gone the way of the airship and the ocean liner. Much of the nostalgia concerning railways is partial, even false; not this.
[On British railway dining cars] — Simon Bradley

I can be a little bit stubborn. — Juan Pablo Galavis

Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything. — Denis Donoghue

I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it. — Lewis Carroll

She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost. — Elizabeth Hay