Kocsis J T Kok Quotes

#1. The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

V.S. Pritchett

#2. One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

Thomas Harris

#3. I recognized that I needed to re-train my brain to stop eating like I wanted to punish myself or punish someone else. I needed to re-learn how to eat like I loved myself, and want to nourish and support myself.

Karen Salmansohn

#4. You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

Maya Angelou

#5. They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.

Sandra Bernhard

#6. Camerado, this is no book,
Who touches this touches a man,
(Is it night? are we here together alone?)
It is I you hold and who holds you,
I spring from the pages into your arms - decease calls me forth.

Walt Whitman

#7. If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

Louise Brown

#8. Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.

P.D. Ouspensky

#9. Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

Salman Rushdie

#10. I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

Ted Nelson

#11. HAVE-TO'S PUT YOU IN A POSITION OF PRESSURE, WHEREAS CHOOSE-TO'S PUT YOU IN A POSITION OF POWER.

Jack Canfield

#12. Narration, after all, isn't just a literary function. It represents the human capacity to tell stories in such a manner that they yield meaning. Television replaced this concerted quest for meaning with a frantic pursuit of wonder.

Steve Almond

#13. Then we're dead all that much sooner. So it goes.

Steven Erikson