Kamby Quotes

#1. In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading like a cross between Samuel Beckett's 'The Calmative' and Gordon Lish's Dear Mr. Capote, Robert Lopez's new novel gets under your skin and latches on.

Brian Evenson

#2. Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.

Sam Lipsyte

#3. A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.

Peter J. Daniels

#5. Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Isaac D'Israeli

#6. When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it on a seven-inch with black-and-white artwork.

Kieran Hebden

#7. I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

Romola Garai

#8. Happiness, not in another place but this place ... not for another hour, but this hour.

Walt Whitman

#9. I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where I'm going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love.

Greg Grunberg

#10. I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.

Michael Jordan

#11. A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all.

David Bowie

#12. Be reasonable. Friendly. The first rule of negotiation her dad taught her was to find out what the other person wanted and figure out a way you could convince them you'd be able to supply it. That, and always be realistic about what was going on.

Danielle Monsch

#13. In 1969 I published a small book on Humility. It was a pioneering work which has not, to my knowledge, been superceded.

Frank Pakenham

#14. What, then, of the liberated slaves and Indians? The saddest part of the story and perhaps the most revealing is that no one bothered to say. None of the accounts either of Drake's voyage or of the Roanoke colony mentions what became of them.

Edmund S. Morgan

#15. Patience is not learned in safety.

Pema Chodron

#16. If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.

Jerry Bridges