Kittly Benders Quotes

#1. Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. I want to introduce my readers to people they may never have met, take them places they may never have visited, and present them with situations they may never have encountered.

J. Everett Prewitt

#3. Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

John Galsworthy

#4. When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling him Peter Parker because the actual guy's name was also alliterative, and because, well, it's my book and I'll name a guy I dated after Spider-Man's alter ego if I want to.

Mindy Kaling

#5. All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. *

Peter Cook

#6. Love life's weariness leavens.

Henri Cazalis

#7. Future became Present, Present became Past. A truth so banal, so obvious and accepted that he had somehow managed to ignore it before.

Iain Banks

#8. If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Roger Ebert

#9. When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers.

S.M. Stevens

#10. Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes.

Sherwood Anderson

#11. Everyone's in their own personal coma.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and turn it loose again, gently altered for having known us.

Diane Ackerman

#13. I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.

Halle Berry

#14. And so Deb is the only person in the world who gives a rusty possum fart whether I live or die.

Jeff Lindsay

#15. Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.

Carly Fiorina

#16. Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

Jose Mourinho