Professor Kirke Quotes & Sayings

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. — Roald Dahl

The Greek word for box is kouti which also means stupid. — Lucas Samaras

It's remarkable the truly stupid things people can do because it's expected of them, or they think it's expected of them. — K.J. Parker

1 Corinthians 2:7 (CEB)
We talk about God's Wisdom, which has been hidden as a secret. God determined this wisdom in advance, before time began for our glory. — Anonymous

It means a lot to me to have my kids like what I do. And that's why I limit them. But I don't want to put that pressure on them to be a fan of mine. — Brian Regan

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia. — Meg Ryan

Doc says I can't move forward until I face the past.
But what the fuck does she know? — Monica Murphy

And the Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don't even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. ROMANS 8:26 — Francine Rivers

The only reason we were here was because nobody had yet optimized software for First Contact. — Peter Watts

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer - I am merely a word criminal. — Murong Xuecun

Anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. — Sandra Bullock

I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband. — Tom Cruise

Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope,
And God Save
as you prefer
the King or Ireland.
The land of scholars and saints:
Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush,
Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints — Louis MacNeice

A class struggling to assert itself, to discover its true shape, which lies hidden, as does the statue in the marble, in the hard, resisting material of life itself, be different from the same class when chisel and mallet have been laid aside, and it has actually become what it had so long been struggling to be. — Hope Mirrlees

I'm going to fight to the death for a public option. — Xavier Becerra