Landerholm Immigration Quotes & Sayings

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence.
Circe Berman: Who isn't?. — Kurt Vonnegut

I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished. — Paul Auster

I hate it when the real world ignores a perfectly logical, rational assumption. — Jim Butcher

Grace changes us and change is painful". — Flannery O'Connor

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light. — Jyrki Vainonen

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self. — Salman Rushdie

I know women. And when they clam up like this? They're not just working one thought over in their brains. Nope, they're constructing a complicated web of scenarios and what ifs, each thread layering over another, thickening and twisting until suddenly they're mad about something that never even occurred to you. — Elle Kennedy

Self-understanding is mediated Christologically. — Brian Gregor

To write, for example, a crime that is horrible but which somehow 'resembles' the butterfly, which would be light and fine like the butterfly. I could also describe the butterfly, but bearing in mind the horrible scene of a crime, so that the butterfly would become something frightful. — Italo Calvino

It's very early, still dark, but outside there's the warm smell of springtime, like things rotting and blooming in one stagnant mist. I realize now that I've always craved the brutality of it. Shoots forcing their way up from the earth, petals popping open.
The start of life is always brutal, isn't it? We're born fighting. — Lauren DeStefano

The wages of pedantry is pain. — Carroll O'Connor

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice. — Lech Walesa

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't. — Ice-T