Kolax's Quotes

#1. My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since.

Johnny Griffin

#2. Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life.

Eustace Conway

#3. Troll welcomes you to Norway, (these legendary creatures live throughout the mountains of Norway)

Constance Roos

#4. I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspicious of fun. I never quite know what that is or how to deal with it or how to generate it. That's my fault. I know it's a burden on the people I'm with. It's tiresome.

Hugh Laurie

#5. To be in New York, to be an adult, to stand on a raised platform of wood and say other people's words! - it was an absurd life, a not-life, a life his parents and his brother would never have dreamed for themselves, and yet he got to dream it for himself every day.

Hanya Yanagihara

#6. I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

Kevin Spacey

#7. My interviews are very pointed. I'm an active participant; I will kindly interrupt people. But I've learned there is nothing people won't tell you if you ask in a compassionate and legitimately interested way.

Brandon Stanton

#8. All of the moments where I was made to feel like an outsider in a group that was supposed to have room for me added up and left me feeling so much shame.

Gabby Rivera

#9. No one wants to see a play called 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. It's going to be called 'Cocks in Frocks II' or I will find another publisher

Oscar Wilde

#10. I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.

Georg Baselitz

#11. My head felt clear and light, like a leaf floating on the wind.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. If I failed in what I now designed to undertake, who, save myself, would suffer?

Charlotte Bronte

#13. In these books, there were spells and rituals for making a living soul something hungry and desperate like him, but he didn't find likelihood in any of them. All it told him was that man was terrified of nothing so much as death. Having died, he could think of dozens of things more worth his fear.

Thomm Quackenbush

#14. One reason many of us never get an answer to our prayers is that all we do is pray.

Mark Batterson

#15. Poor old G.K.C.! It's too bad he didn't live to see the change. What paradoxes he would have dreamed up!

Poul Anderson