Kadangyan Quotes

#1. I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.

Charissa Thompson

#2. I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!

Rick Moody

#3. Science may explain how humans came into being, but it has no answer to the slippery question of how humans should live. Only literature makes it possible to pose such questions in the first place. And if there is no answer, only literature can point to the impossibility of ever finding one.

Minae Mizumura

#4. Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

Richard Dawkins

#5. Dealing with Caleb was all about perspective. You couldn't appreciate his kindness until you'd felt his cruelty.

C.J. Roberts

#6. Joseph Mandell and I began by attempting to make chromatography of DNA work.

Alfred Hershey

#7. Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.

Bill Hicks

#8. You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.

Steve Jobs

#9. Wherein cunning, but in craft? Wherein crafty, but in villainy? Wherein villainous, but in all things? Wherein worthy, but in nothing?

William Shakespeare

#10. The first step to having something in your life is to see yourself having it in your mind.

Danielle Barone

#11. The definition of success is total preparation.

George Allen

#12. I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

Scott Bakula