Kopka River Quotes

#1. In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.

Barton Gellman

#2. Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

Chuck Klosterman

#3. I want to be undone by you. I want to be the one to come to pieces in your arms, to forget there is anything in this world but the two of us.

Laura Andersen

#4. You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it ...

Chuck D

#5. Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.

Samuel Johnson

#6. Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

Joan Larkin

#7. The first step to eternal live is you have to die.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. I haven't heard anything or seen anything out there that would lead me to believe that all of a sudden there's an unexpected drop in PCs.

Daniel Morgan

#10. Skin color is basically a measure of the local ultraviolet levels, and it is controlled by relatively minor adaptive changes in the genome.

Bill Nye

#11. There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.

Ron Clarke

#12. People don't start wars, governments do.

Ronald Reagan

#13. When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but it's something not very nice.

Sophie Okonedo

#14. When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free.

Barbara Marciniak

#15. My dad had previously spoken about 'fighting through things to get to the good stuff' or some such concept, and as he shook the salt water out of his curly brown hair, he talked more about people 'giving up and missing out on fantastic moments'.

Norman Ollestad