Koenigsberg Today Quotes

#1. I know you have the patience of a rapidly decomposing turd.

Mary E. Pearson

#2. Moreover, not unlike presidential candidates who hold babies up in the air as soon as the cameras are rolling, male chimps vying for power develop a sudden interest in infants, which they hold and tickle in order

Frans De Waal

#3. Tis ten to one this play can never please
All that are here. Some come to take their ease
And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear,
W' have frighted with our trumpets.

William Shakespeare

#4. I ate in the silence and drank my coffee and looked occasionally at Susan's picture on my desk. Let us be true to one another, dear.

Robert B. Parker

#5. People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.

Al Sharpton

#6. Maybe the reason we like stories so much is because they deliver wish fulfillment. Maybe we sit in the dark and shovel sugar into our mouths because in so many stories everything is made right, and we secretly long for that ourselves.

Donald Miller

#7. Ah, gym class. Remember it? Institutionally sanctioned torture for society's misfits.

Lisa Unger

#8. You can't forget anything," I said, watching the words vanish into nothing. "And even if you do, it always comes back to bitch-slap you in the morning.

Kim Harrison

#9. You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

John Barrowman

#10. Everyone knows that when you go through a divorce, it's a really difficult time for both parties and you've all - you believe, you both believe, individually, that you've put your best into it.

Heather Mills

#11. I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.

Ed O'Neill

#12. A moment later I am moving through space. Spinning. Twirling. Dancing.
In the light.

Robyn Bavati

#13. Behind me the radiator goes on, giving yet another encore performance. Tink, tink, tink, tink.The warmth slowly comes up on my back. Hard worker, that heater. The bulb, on the other hand, is doing a flickering thing, showing some signs of fatigue. You're losing, bulb.

Veronica Rossi

#14. To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no and no again as they parade by in all their allure. And to be a writer is to plunge into the parade and become one of the delirious marchers.

Cynthia Ozick

#15. There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

Henry Ward Beecher