Karout City Quotes

#1. The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

Victoria Abril

#2. Everything is a story, and we are the authors of our own lives.

Tim Green

#3. You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.

Hank Stram

#4. Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

George Washington Carver

#5. As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.

Norman Jewison

#6. I really didn't care if he turned into a big wolf - he was still Jacob.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.

Jenny Offill

#8. If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe.

Shepard Fairey

#9. Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear.

Sandra Gulland

#10. [Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job ... into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.

Milan Kundera

#11. Mediocrity is your enemy,
satisfactory is your acquaintance,
excellence is your friend,
and genius is your soul mate.

Matshona Dhliwayo