Kristofers Mountainside Quotes

#1. It's the calm before the storm, Aedion.

Sarah J. Maas

#2. The people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

Aretha Franklin

#3. I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

Salman Rushdie

#4. But if you've seen a dead body, you know how they change the air: that huge silence, the absence strong as a black hole, time stopped and molecules frozen around the still thing that's learned the final secret, the one he can never tell.

Tana French

#5. One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.

Christopher Alexander

#6. I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's Tomb.

Richard Elman

#7. I got schooled this year.
By my Father.
He taught me that heroes aren't always invincible.

Colleen Hoover

#8. Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

Babatunde Adebimpe