Joel Kovel Quotes

#1. My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#2. When I grow old I want to regret the things I've done, not the things I haven't done.

Youngblood Hawke

#3. You can coat that shit in sugar, but it's still shit.

Kyran Pittman

#4. I have little tolerance for noise and stupidity.

Andrew J. Robinson

#5. A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.

Janette Oke

#6. The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#7. I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General.

Smedley Butler

#8. I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.

James Caan

#9. I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education ... People are on these tracks. They are getting these credentials and it's very unclear how viable they are in many cases.

Peter Thiel

#10. Is joy in life, a terrible joy. There is joy for the taking if you are not afraid.

Joyce Carol Oates

#11. Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat.

Richard Curtis

#12. I remember all the writers I started with who I was embarrassed to be around - they were so much better than me. A lot of them are no longer writing. I guess they were better rounded and had other options. Due to social discomfort, I only had the one road.

Daniel Woodrell

#13. If you look close enough, you can see cracks in everything. And that's okay. Because when you really think about it, it's the cracks and gaps and chinks in things that let the light shine in.

D. Anne Love

#14. Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

Rand Paul

#15. There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

Marianne Williamson