Kyril Quotes & Sayings

To be on foot in the United States is only immoral, not illegal. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

It was still only nine o'clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You probably know the feeling if you are over eighteen. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

I very carefully levered up an eyelid and shut it again fast. A merciless sunbeam had squirted straight in, making my brain bleed. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

How sharper than a serpent's tooth is an awakening without tea! — Kyril Bonfiglioli

Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery. — Terry Goodkind

Pure no-thing-ness is conscious intelligence. — Gangaji

Leaders are at their very best when they are raising up leaders around them. — Bill Hybels

I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

she looked about as hard to get as a haircut and at about the same price. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

Bed is the only place for protracted telephoning. It is also execellently suited to reading, sleeping and listening to canaries. It is not a good place for sex: sex should take place in armchairs, or in bathrooms, or on lawns which have been brushed but not too recently mown, or on sandy beaches if you happen to have been circumcised. If you are too tired to have intercourse except in bed you are probably too tired anyway and should be husbanding your strength. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

I'm not sure what I feel. All I know is that I'm tired of being the innocent bystander who gets punched in the gut. It's their fight - Mom and Dad's. But how come Heath and I are the ones who end up bruised?" He rearranged one of my braids and wound the loose tail around the tip of his index finger. "Because everything we do in life affects someone else. Buddhists say that inside and outside are basically the same thing. It's like we're all trapped together in a small room. If someone pisses in the corner, we all have to worry about it trickling across the floor and getting our shoes wet. — Jenn Bennett

Some of my best friends are women,' I snapped, 'though I certainly wouldn't want my daughter to marry one of them. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

There's nothing like gunfire to drive the glamour from words. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

Other than that, how was Kyril Island, Ensign Vorkosigan?" inquired the Count. "You didn't vid home much, your mother noticed." "I was busy. Lessee. The climate was ferocious, the terrain was lethal, a third of the population including my immediate superior was dead drunk most of the time. The average IQ equaled the mean temperature in degrees cee, there wasn't a woman for five hundred kilometers in any direction, and the base commander was a homicidal psychotic. Other than that, it was lovely. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Why do people build houses to keep the climate out, then cut holes in the walls to let it in again? I shall never understand. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

Pledge Allegiance was a pretty generic name back in the day. In the 80's I was the promoter for all the punk rock shows and I'd book Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, Minor Threat etc and I'd hook them up with places to stay if needed so it's hard to keep track of it all. — Reed Mullin

I never drink alcohol. I do not like to blunt my senses.' 'Goodness,' I babbled, 'but how awful for you. Not drinking, I mean. I mean, imagine getting up in the morning knowing that you're not going to feel any better all day. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration. — Rita Coolidge