Kutat Quotes

#1. My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, "Where's the bathroom?" and making theatrical looking-around gestures like a lost foreign tourist. But then, instead of finding the bathroom, I sneakily grab my coat and leave.

Mindy Kaling

#2. All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#3. Someone else always has to carry on the story.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Any moment called now is always full of possibles.

China Mieville

#5. Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

Bruce Sterling

#6. There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that.

Phil Klay

#7. In my family, a book can be a life raft.

Alice Hoffman

#8. The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation.

Ray Oldenburg

#9. Humans look just like livestock now. We achieve a state of buttery plumpness before we've even reached sexual maturity. We experience powerful cravings for food that is slowly making us sick. We are...programmed to eat the wrong food. We aren't born calorie zombies, but that's what we have become.

Mark Schatzker

#10. Troll sat alone on his seat of stone, And munched and mumbled a bare old bone; For many a year he had gnawed it near, For meat was hard to come by. Done by! Gum by! In a cave in the hills he dwelt alone, And meat was hard to come by.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. That's what I think we're all looking for - an honest love wherever you can find it.

Piper Perabo