Kilroy Was Here Quotes

#1. Really the writer doesn't want success ... He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.

William Faulkner

#2. What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.

William Faulkner

#3. Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure

Witold Rybczynski

#4. He that will be surety, shall pay.

George Herbert

#5. Fucking hope. Next thing you'd know, I'd be getting soft and sentimental and teary-eyed over puppies and kittens and rainbows.

Jennifer Estep

#6. Every person interprets the silence that surrounds him or her. The eternal silence of the universe that we exist in is terrifying because it forces each of to ask what our purpose is, why are we here, and what should I do?

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. The U.S. invaded the wrong country, destroying an odious government that was not responsible for 9/11. I don't know how you recover from invading the wrong country, no matter how you spin it.

Richard Engel

#8. Belagren: I can't build a whole religion on a probablity, Madalan.
Madalan: Not when sex, drugs and human sacrifices work so much better.

Jennifer Fallon

#9. When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.

Frederick Lenz

#10. I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

K.A. Applegate

#11. Vanilla and vanilla bean are two different flavors, and vanilla bean is a much more intense experience

Leila Sales

#12. It's often the worst of you that brings out the best of you

Thabiso Monkoe

#13. A weed is a plant out of place.

Jim Thompson

#14. What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

Alexander Pope

#15. Avengers was cool. I liked it. But I feel like we haven't seen this side of the superhero universe. So I think fans want to see it, too. If everything is perfect and shiny and everybody has Quinjets and mansions, it just gets a little ... I don't know. I'm ready for something different.

Timothy Miller

#16. The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work your hands.

Euginia Herlihy

#17. An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#18. To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant Monopoly board.

Woody Harrelson

#19. After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

Alice Walker