Top 100 Karl's Quotes
#1. At the back of Karl's mind, a new thought emerged: reward money.
A.G. Riddle
#2. And then what did you do, Lord Oliver? Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard.
Jessica Day George
#3. Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.
Karl Kraus
#4. Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
Karl Lagerfeld
#5. We're gonna get weaker. That's already happened. They used to say, you know, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Now they're saying eat five fruits. That's evidence. You can't argue with that.
Karl Pilkington
#6. Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
Karl Kraus
#7. If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.
Karl Kraus
#8. Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.
Karl Rahner
#9. It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.
Karl Pilkington
#10. Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
Karl Lagerfeld
#11. Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.
Ronald Reagan
#12. It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#13. The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#14. Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium.
Gideon Defoe
#15. War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
Karl Marlantes
#16. Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.
Karl Lagerfeld
#17. What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
Karl Barth
#18. The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#20. I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.
Karl Malone
#21. The houses where we lived were still standing, all of them. The sole difference, which is the difference between a child's reality and an adult's, was that they were no longer laden with meaning.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#22. I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
Karl Pilkington
#23. The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it's okay for clothes not that great for people
Karl Lagerfeld
#24. I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
Karl Marlantes
#25. That is its sole law: everything has to submit to form. If any of literature's other elements are stronger than form, such as style, plot, theme, if any of these take control over form, the result is poor. That is why writers with a strong style often write poor books.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#26. Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before
Karl Barth
#27. I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.
Karl Lagerfeld
#28. I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It's very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#29. Memorial Day weekend is the time we drink up all the booze and eat up all the grub that the soldiers didn't get to. It's important.
Karl Welzein
#30. You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that's obscene.
Karl Lagerfeld
#31. Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#32. A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.
Karl Shapiro
#33. Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary sources for the family history, often without knowing it. I think if she'd been a son, she would have been referenced more.
Rachel Holmes
#34. At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
Karl Pilkington
#35. There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
Karl Lehmann
#36. But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.
Karl Malone
#37. I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.
Karl Lagerfeld
#38. Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.
Karl Popper
#39. Attitudes are like mirrors, they reflect towards anyone that's looking.
Karl Kloppenborg
#40. If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
Karl Pilkington
#41. What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Karl Lagerfeld
#42. I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.
Karl Pilkington
#43. I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes
it's about all kinds of change
Karl Lagerfeld
#44. Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.
Dennis Rodman
#45. If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
Karl Lagerfeld
#46. I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.
Karl Pilkington
#47. You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
Karl Malone
#48. They've found this spider, in the jungle. Three foot long, it eats chicken. Bit weird, innit. People moan saying that you shouldn't lock animals up and all the rest of it, but to be honest I wish it was locked up. The idea that it's roaming in a jungle ... get it locked up.
Karl Pilkington
#50. The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
Karl Lagerfeld
#52. When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
Karl Urban
#53. Frankenstein's monster speaks: the computer. But where are its words coming from? Is the wisdom on those cold lips our own, merely repeated at our request? Or is something else speaking? - A voice we have always dreamed of hearing?
Karl Schroeder
#54. My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#55. One of my wisdom teeth is playing up. My dentist said it is known to happen with some people when they're stressed. My teeth seem to know I'm stressed before I do. Maybe that's why they're called wisdom teeth.
Karl Pilkington
#56. If I were a girl, I always like Chanel. It's so stylish and timeless. So I like Karl Lagerfeld a lot.
Tiesto
#57. Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
Robert Frost
#58. It's up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible.
It's a question of will and discipline.
Karl Lagerfeld
#59. I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
Karl Pilkington
#60. It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange ... and it won't bother humans.
Karl Marlantes
#61. The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.
Karl Pilkington
#62. Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
Karl Lagerfeld
#63. That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
Karl Pilkington
#64. But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.
Karl Lehmann
#65. And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.
Karl Marlantes
#67. If you're worrying about the wrinkles on your bollocks I'd say your life's pretty good
Karl Pilkington
#68. Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again.
Karl Otto Pohl
#69. If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.
Karl Marx
#70. Are you coming now?" Griffin snapped.
Karl glanced over at him and smiled. "What's the magic word?"
Griffin stalked off, muttering a word under his breath.
"That's not it," Karl called after him.
Kelley Armstrong
#71. Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.
Karl Schroeder
#72. The only love that I really believe in is a mother's love for her children.
Karl Lagerfeld
#73. I love classic beauty. It's an idea of beauty with no standard.
Karl Lagerfeld
#74. You always spend a little more time watching the guys you coached, to see how they're playing. And there's no question that when I check scores, I still go to the Nuggets scorer faster than any other scores. I have a lot of love for the players and a lot of love for the city.
George Karl
#75. People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
Karl Lagerfeld
#76. No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
Karl Lagerfeld
#77. Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself.
Karl Marx
#78. There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
Al Capp
#79. Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#80. The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.
George Karl
#81. I laugh at the so-called 'practical' people and their wisdom. If one wants to live like a beast, it could naturally do, to turn its back on humanity's suffering and only care about its own pelt.
Karl Marx
#82. [Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.
Karl Pilkington
#83. Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
Karl Lagerfeld
#84. I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".
Karl Urban
#85. A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
Karl Kraus
#86. If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.
Karl Kraus
#87. In the sea you've got to be constantly sort of alert. It's worse in the sea [than anywhere else in the animal kingdom]. In the sea you've got an enemy behind every rock.
Karl Pilkington
#88. Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
Karl Jaspers
#89. Be careful crossing above the waterfall, it's a fatal spot.
Karl Meltzer
#91. When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#92. Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.
Karl Barth
#93. There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time.
Karl Urban
#94. An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
Karl Kraus
#95. It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.
Karl Pilkington
#96. And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
Karl Rove
#97. Fishing: I don't really like it. I don't really like the expression on the fish's face.
Karl Pilkington
#98. It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
Karl Rove
#99. Learning to read, and to a lesser degree, to write, are of course the major events in one's intellectual development. There is nothing to compare with it, since very few people (Helen Keller is the great exception) can remember what it meant for them to learn to speak.
Karl Popper
