Kilo Quotes

#1. When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo. The same kilo, when it is processed [and sold in Britain], goes for $10, $11 or even more a kilo. That is the same situation [price disparity] that goes for all raw materials.

Yoweri Museveni

#2. No go sections of the city and they work on law and the police don't go in there. That is not helping anything [in immigrants' assimilation]. That creates a situation like France, unfortunately.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

#3. I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

Karl Lagerfeld

#4. For the dreadful scourge has returned, and once more warriors must walk the green fields of England!

Steve Hockensmith

#5. A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.

Katherine Boo

#7. I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

Oscar Wilde

#8. We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

Paul Kagame

#9. Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.

Robert Anton Wilson

#10. Don't just do something because it's a trendy idea and will make you a lot of money. The reason I say that is because any kind of venture involves going through difficult times. If you're doing something you are passionate about and really believe in, then that will carry you through.

Jerry Greenfield

#11. Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.

Anthony Doerr

#12. A bottle of vodka costs as much as a coat used to. And something to snack on? Half a kilo of salami is half a month's pension.

Svetlana Alexievich

#13. A gram of prevention is worth a kilo of cure."
-Ganner Rhysode

Michael A. Stackpole

#14. I felt like a guy in a cell being stared at longingly by a naked one-hundred-and-ten-kilo lifer. You know, sooner or later, that something unpleasant is going to happen to you.

-The Ballad of the Low Lifes, by Enrico Remmert (2003), P. 20

Enrico Remmert

#15. I'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song.

Beyonce Knowles

#16. The pillow mashed into her abdomen like a ten-kilo sandbag, filling her mouth with the taste of stomach acid.

James S.A. Corey

#17. Like a heart, and I wish mine wasn't beating.

Elizabeth Scott

#18. Justice is a machine which, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

John Galsworthy

#19. We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.

Frederick Douglass

#20. My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.

Andrea Gibson

#21. I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

Kylie Minogue

#22. But just one gram of suspicion weighs heavier than a kilo of truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. There's the unusual stuff that psychopaths do - impulsive antisocial behavior, beginning in childhood - and there are the moral emotions that psychopaths lack. They feel no compassion, guilt, shame, or even embarrassment, which makes it easy for them to lie, and to hurt family, friends, and animals.

Jonathan Haidt

#24. The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.

Arthur Smith

#25. He is, however," Amos continued, "keeping a constant rail gun lock on the Israel's reactor."
Holden ran his fingers through his hair. "So not too generous, then."
"Say pretty please, but carry a one-kilo slug of tungsten accelerated to a detectable percentage of c.

James S.A. Corey

#26. Bakhchisaray was formerly the capital of the Crimean khanate and once an important crossroad of the Silk Road, where traders met from across the Black Sea, the steppes of Central Asia, Russia, and eastern Europe.

Tim Cope

#27. The keel-mounted rail gun pushed the whole ship backward in a solid mathematical relationship to the mass of the two-kilo tungsten round moving at a measurable fraction of c. Newton's third law expressed as violence. Holden's

James S.A. Corey

#28. I'd rather get sick from eating too many doggie treats,
than get sick from eating none at all.
-Kilo (my dog)

Jose N. Harris