Kielski Kanal Karta Quotes

#1. All I did was go to the library to borrow some books

Haruki Murakami

#2. Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

John Cage

#3. What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love? The flame keeps gnawing into her tender marrow hour by hour, and deep in her heart the silent wound lives on.

Virgil

#4. It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

C.V. Wedgwood

#5. One of the great ball-givers in the United Kingdom is Nicholas Parsons.

Derek Nimmo

#6. If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That includes the military, the pharmaceutical industry, the people who produce mechanized debt, GMO foods. We are prisoners.

Deepak Chopra

#7. I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

Bob Seger

#8. I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was ... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.

Donald Hall

#9. WH Auden: "The first criterion of success in any human activity, the necessary preliminary, whether to scientific discovery or artistic vision, is intensity of attention or, less pompously, love.

ESPN Cricinfo

#10. We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth doing.

Evgeny Morozov

#11. We always fear losing our memory, yet it's the source of our troubles. Happy people forget.

Jean-Michel Guenassia

#12. [On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"
(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)

David Halberstam

#13. I honestly think that it automatically hurts me if I said that I supported the war in Iraq and I support the troops. That automatically kills me for getting a bunch of movies, a bunch of TV shows. People don't want to hear from me.

Drew Carey

#14. O last regret, regret can die!

Alfred Lord Tennyson