Kotumb Quotes

#1. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei

#2. Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.

Wallace Stevens

#3. And all your future lies beneath your hat.

John Oldham

#4. When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

David Selby

#5. Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level.

Honor Harger

#6. And suddenly she began to sing. Keen, heart-piercing was her song as the song of the lark that rises from the gates of night and pours its voice among the dying stars, seeing the sun behind the walls of the world

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. Tell me pleasant lies, and I will believe them before I throw them away.

Dawn Kurtagich

#8. They do the essential work of literary art: they make us more human than we were before. (from the Introduction to Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed)

Steve Almond

#9. A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

John Ray

#10. My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.

Michael Rispoli

#11. My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.

Tupac Shakur

#12. If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Groucho Marx

#13. The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

Bode Miller

#14. Memories cartwheel out of her head & tumble across the floor.

Anthony Doerr