Tom Kazansky Quotes & Sayings

"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master. — Anthony De Mello

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly. — Robert Louis Stevenson

People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is ... — Fredrika Bremer

It says that whenever people cross our paths, there is always a message for us. Chance encounters do not exist. But how we respond to these encounters determines whether we're able to receive the message. If we have a conversation with someone who crosses our path and we do not see a message pertaining to our current questions, it does not mean there was no message. It only means we missed it for some reason. — James Redfield

Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's
the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance
as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off. — Jonathan Lethem

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. — Hunter S. Thompson

If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will be fine and funny. But if you have something pretty emotional at its core, you have to make it right. You don't want it overwrought or unearned. Everything has to be moving towards this one thing. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I thought he said you weren't drunk if you could find your arse with both hands."
He eyed me appraisingly. "I hate to tell ye, Sassenach, but it's not your arse ye've got hold of - it's mine."
"That's all right," I assured him. "We're married. Share and share alike. One flesh; the priest said so. — Diana Gabaldon

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers. — Margaret Cavendish

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one. — Simone De Beauvoir

I am for decriminalization. The significant aspect of that is that we don't force prostitutes to have to get a license to work. I think the whole idea of licensing consensual sex between adults is offensive. — Chester Brown

You're an odd one, son."
"The normal ones are dead in the chasms, sir. — Brandon Sanderson

12. A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise. — Anonymous

There is no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost; there is victory and defeat. There are no absolutes. Everything inbetween is left to fight for. — Derek Landy