Kealey Quotes

#1. Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

Stephen Elliott

#2. The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

Marcel Proust

#3. The dream of a planned, fair, moral, ethical, cash-free society remains strong, particularly among socialists and liberals. It clearly represents a fundamental human instinct. But feudalism just did not work very well, if only because powerful people will not always obey moral imperatives.

Terence Kealey

#4. The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

Paul Feig

#5. Ye see, Little Tree, ain't no way of learning, except by letting ye do. Iff'n I had stopped ye from buying the calf, ye'd have always thought ye'd ought to had it. Iff'n I'd told ye to buy it, ye'd blame me fer the calf dying. Ye'll have to learn as ye go.

Forrest Carter

#6. My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.

Mason Cooley

#7. I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'

Carmen Kass

#8. Do you have children? she asked.
No.
Why?
The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

Alessandro Baricco

#9. Don't tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.

Ayn Rand

#10. In my experience, economists rarely believe passionately in, or care passionately for, the free market. They are generally more concerned to reveal the market's imperfections, to further their own professional importance.

Terence Kealey

#11. So, unlike the heroes of Hebrews 11 who held onto nothing of this life, these dying churches held onto everything, at least everything that made them comfortable and happy. Such is the reason we speak of them in the past.

Thom S. Rainer

#12. God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

Ray Bradbury