Kvys Quotes

#1. The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

Gloria Steinem

#2. But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that, it burps.

Libba Bray

#3. If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere.

Jojo Moyes

#4. Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

Vaclav Klaus

#5. Perhaps the little Negro girl was holding a concealed razor blade. Maybe she was one of the troublemakers out for a fresh white scalp.

David Sedaris

#6. It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

Claude Lelouch

#7. Then rely on your judgment and forget all this." Zechariah scooped up the scroll with a sweep of his hand. "But don't try to do both. It won't work. Either your faith in God is absolute, or it's worthless. There's no way to compromise.

Lynn Austin

#8. Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both ... Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#9. That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That'll teach me to go hide in a temple.

Megan Whalen Turner

#10. My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.

Romesh Gunesekera

#11. We walked for a long time. We kissed, we embraced on the Lungarno, I asked him, half serious, half joking, if he wanted to sneak into my room. He shook his head, he went back to kissing me passionately. There were entire libraries separating him and Antonio, but they were similar.

Elena Ferrante

#12. The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

J. D. Hayworth

#13. I think I could get full just smelling this.

Kristen Heitzmann