Kirkwoods Store Quotes

#1. What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.

Huey Newton

#2. The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

Julia Child

#3. It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.

John J. McCloy

#4. Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Jack Welch

#5. I want to own a wind farm. Don't breathe, or you'll undermine the price of my crop.

Jarod Kintz

#6. Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)

Michael Pollan

#7. I'm ready to create.

John Galliano

#8. Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.

Herman Melville

#9. While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

Boyle Roche

#10. It was a life that had left him rich in experience, but poor in goods of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness

Louis L'Amour

#11. Your so-called "self" is a composite superimposed on the activity of many competing subpersonalities or agents. What you perceive as your consciousness is a string of temporary heroes rising above those they have defeated. And so you seek out heroes in the common story of your race.

Paul McAuley

#12. I realized that the confidence, power, and wisdom to create changes in our life come from knowing what we really are, from knowing our changeless nature.

Ilchi Lee

#13. With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

Studs Terkel