Kottke Associates Quotes

#1. Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Woodrow Wilson

#3. Sunday night is curry night. I always order a spinach paneer and a chicken tikka. There's usually something good on TV like 'Mr Selfridge' or 'Downton Abbey,' so I'll watch them before I have to think about blowdrying my hair and all the other boring stuff us girls have to do!

Donna Air

#4. Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

Nicolas Roeg

#5. There are beings who come into this world, from time to time, not simply with miraculous powers, which we call the siddhas, but with a miraculous awareness that is so strong yet so subtle that anyone or anything that touches that awareness is transformed forever.

Frederick Lenz

#6. I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

Julius Erving

#7. I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been through this kind of neglect and abuse is really to convince them that they are worthy of being loved. And I think because often they don't feel worthy of it, that's why they push people away.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#8. The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

Swami Kriyananda

#9. Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.

George Eliot

#10. Sometimes we look at life from the perspective of our own problems and, in so doing, ignore how fortunate we are.

The Prophet Of Life

#11. dripped down her neck and stained the collar of her shirt. It was a mirror to the wash of blood pouring from her scalp, blinding her left eye and trailing down her cheek like macabre tears.

Kayti Nika Raet

#12. But in that one little window of time, many lasting
decisions were made. First, any love for my father that might have remained either in my
mother's heart or my own - vaporized. Second, we knew for sure that Dad was unfixably nuts.

Douglas Coupland