John Kessel Quotes
Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.
John Kessel
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
Taylor Caldwell
When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
A. R. Rahman
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
Garet Garrett
I am a contrarian.
Barry Diller
I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.
Tadashi Shoji
'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all that out to get at the real story.
Nathaniel Philbrick
I was nervous about meeting Charlotte Rampling, as she's a proper legend, but she is just so sweet.
Olivia Colman
Half of life-the interesting half of life-we don't even have a name for.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If I couldn't do it my way, I'd best stay at home.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Don't take any shit from anybody!
Billy Joel
I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.
Bertrand Russell
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like 'charming' and 'clever' and 'pretty' are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.
Andy Warhol