Kisker Urgent Quotes

#1. I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.

Stephen Daldry

#2. If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one

Pat Summitt

#3. There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

Francis Bacon

#4. You and I cannot possibly know the hidden pain eating holes in individual lives, so if we want to be saviors, in partnership with the Lord, we will be kind to everyone, everywhere, all of the time.

Virginia H. Pearce

#5. If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life.

Jonathan Franzen

#6. I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

Sean Penn

#7. I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

Iris Murdoch

#8. The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and things like that; I seem to be able to do that pretty well. I suppose in that respect there's some improvisation, although I work over the stuff after I've got it down on paper.

Harvey Pekar

#9. Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

Gregory Bateson