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
Paperwork will ruin any military force.
Chesty Puller
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.
Oswald Chambers
I'm not that great of an actor, so I can't, like, completely become somebody else.
Jason Bateman
To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.
Walt Whitman
I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.
Lee Iacocca
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
