Koestenbaum Quotes

#1. We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

#2. Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

Voltaire

#3. Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#4. I seek for myself the immunity of the diplomatic pouch.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#5. Yes to fingerfucking the dialectic! Or to using the dialectic as a method of fingerfucking the binary!

Wayne Koestenbaum

#6. People who achieve access to the deepest roots of their freedom can completely change.

Peter Koestenbaum

#7. Prose divides shame into stations.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#8. Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action - to be a leader.

Peter Koestenbaum

#9. Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

Mason Cooley

#10. I was not thinking about the world. I was not thinking about history. I was thinking about my body's small, precise, limited, hungry movement forward into the future that seemed at every instant on the verge of being shut down.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#11. To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times

Peter Koestenbaum

#12. The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

Peter Koestenbaum

#13. If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

Calvin Klein

#14. For heaven's sake, if you don't know someone's name, just pretend you do. Do that thing everyone else does, where you vaguely say, "Nice to see you!" and make weak eye contact.

Mindy Kaling

#15. The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#16. In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#17. To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred.

Peter Koestenbaum

#18. The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.

Peter Koestenbaum

#19. Now, don't kick a dog 'cause it's only a pup!

Victor Hugo

#20. When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.

Carroll Quigley

#21. I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#22. I like to see a tidy shop, and I want to see my investments well managed.

Nathan Kirsh

#23. On 18 you've got to drive it up a gnat's ass.

Greg Norman

#24. The remnant of the human species must understand that faith was the narcotic that fueled the insanity of religion.
Conclusion: Invisible love is wasted. Invisible evidence is worthless. Invisible God is non-existent.

C.J. Anderson

#25. A lot of people think that keying a car isn't the right way to get back at a guy. I disagree.

Chelsea Handler

#26. I am demonstrating to you how tasty I think words are. I'm having sex with words in front of you. I'm playing around with them. I'm getting off. I'm trying to titillate you. There's this magical substance, language, that I'm laying out for you. Then you're going to fondle it.

Wayne Koestenbaum

#27. Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.

Peter Koestenbaum