Kuulei Kupihea Quotes & Sayings

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty! — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is all just the universe doing its stuff, and we are the stuff it is being done to. — Julian Barnes

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth. — Cathy Rigby

When you look at something and think of all the ways you would change it, then you're not accepting it for what it is, nor are you truly appreciating it. — Tristesse Genevieve

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth. — Robert B. Laughlin

As with any form of mental self-improvement, you must learn to turn your gaze inward, concentrate on processes that usually run automatically, and try to wrest control of them so that you can apply them more mindfully. — Steven Pinker

I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing. — Salma Hayek

Bird asked what a paleontologist was and Mom said that if he took a complete, illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shred it into a hundred pieces, cast them into the wind from the museum's steps, let a few weeks pass, went back and scoured Fifth Avenue and Central Park for as many surviving scraps as he could find, then tried to reconstruct the history of painting, including schools, styles, genres, and names of painters from his scraps, that would be like a paleontologist. — Nicole Krauss

Ordinary men commit extraordinary evil all the time. Trust me. — Mindy Mejia

He had a tenderness in him, and a streak of poetry, and she knew he loved the land for far more than its ability to sustain him. — Linda Lael Miller

Let's say it once and for all: Poe and Lovecraft - not to mention a Bruno Schulz or a Franz Kafka - were what the world at large would consider extremely disturbed individuals. And most people who are that disturbed are not able to create works of fiction. These and other names I could mention are people who are just on the cusp of total psychological derangement. Sometimes they cross over and fall into the province of 'outsider artists.' That's where the future development of horror fiction lies - in the next person who is almost too emotionally and psychologically damaged to live in the world but not too damaged to produce fiction. — Thomas Ligotti