Kztky Quotes & Sayings

You know, I want to teach, but I don't want to read? — Jim Gaffigan

We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told him that in English we sometimes say, 'I've been there.' This was unclear to him at first-I've been where? But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific loacation, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.
'So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked.
'Sometimes people live there for years,' I said. — Elizabeth Gilbert

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me. — Billy Connolly

People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change. — Bill Bradley

Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small? — O.R. Melling

Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them — Plato

Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is. — Joyce Appleby

There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing 'Talk Soup' and 'Later' at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize. — Greg Kinnear

The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs. — Manmohan Acharya

He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side. — Emily Giffin

A Bet is a Tax on Bullshit — Alex Tabarrok

Bare feet are the best shoes! — David Belle