Kozma Prutkov Quotes

#1. And from this story I learned about the geopolitics of taking out one's salami.

George Friedman

#2. All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.

Patrick Warburton

#3. What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be quite erroneous? And what would be more important than to find our true place in the universe by removing one by one these unfortunate vestiges of earlier beliefs?

Francis Crick

#4. If you want to be happy, be so.

Kozma Prutkov

#5. I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Kiki Smith

#6. I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

Melanie Griffith

#7. There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

Tobias Wolff

#8. An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

Philip Warren Anderson