Sladak Kupus Quotes & Sayings

Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs. — Laozi

Hurray for standardized valve systems! — Andy Weir

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things. — Susan Sontag

If you are killing a chicken and cooking a chicken, it has to taste like chicken. Veal has to taste like veal. You have to be able to identify what you're eating. One of my worst experiences is when I can't tell what I'm eating. It is a waste. — Joel Robuchon

Two Dutch researchers did a study in which they had groups of students answer forty-two fairly demanding questions from the board game Trivial Pursuit. Half were asked to take five minutes beforehand to think about what it would mean to be a professor and write down everything that came to mind. Those students got 55.6 percent of the questions right. The other half of the students were asked to first sit and think about soccer hooligans. They ended up getting 42.6 percent of the Trivial Pursuit questions right. The "professor" group didn't know more than the "soccer hooligan" group. They weren't smarter or more focused or more serious. They were simply in a "smart" frame of mind, and, clearly, associating themselves with the idea of something smart, like a professor, made it a lot easier - in that stressful instant after a trivia question was asked - to blurt out the right answer. — Malcolm Gladwell

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing. — P.D. James

When you understand what you're truly worth, who is going to be able to make you feel worthless? No one. — Toni Sorenson

You're not afraid I'll kill you tonight?"
"Like I couldn't take you. — Suzanne Collins

Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them. — Natalie Jeremijenko

My strong suit is that I've been willing to risk on the page to get somewhere interesting. — Mat Johnson

Telimektar son of Tulkas is with those noble ones, and his face and weapons gleam as silver in the dark, — Anonymous

I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it. — Patti Scialfa

I was raised by a woman who knows her own worth, and her daughters firmly believe that life is much better for a woman when a man has to work really hard to get her. It's human nature to take better care of something you've worked for, whether it's a car or a wife. — Linda Howard

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more. — Brent Scowcroft

There is none like Him; I would not exchange one smile of His lovely face with kingdoms. — Samuel Rutherford