Kemosabe Quotes

#1. Just because I'm Native American doesn't mean I can track furniture through the wilderness." She deepened her voice: "'Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged table passed this way an hour ago.' Heck, I don't know.

Rick Riordan

#2. There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Adam Smith

#3. Trust your judgment, baby witch. No one else's. You've got good instincts for someone flakier than my mum's pie crust. (Leprechaun to Rachel)

Kim Harrison

#4. Reality is like fine wine: it does not appeal to children.

Donald Miller

#5. It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

William Osler

#6. Father, I am welling over with limpid joy! No sicklying taint of sorrow overlies the lucid lake of liquid love, upon which, hand in hand, Aline and I are to float into eternity!

W.S. Gilbert

#7. People are just not impressed by me at home.

Viola Davis

#8. Traffic counting was very boring and cold to sit out on the streets of New Haven in five pairs of pants - well, that's an exaggeration; it was three pairs of pants - in November for hours and hours clicking buttons counting which cars go left, right, and forward.

John Hodgman

#9. Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.

Robert E. Howard

#10. [London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and so much diversity. It's just a perfect place to grow up. I studied at the Guildhall every Saturday so I'd always be in town every weekend doing that. I was kind of a city boy really.

Douglas Booth

#11. The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

Martin Heidegger

#12. Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

Nafisa Joseph