Saknussemm Quotes

#1. Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.

Rachel Sklar

#2. Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

Eve Babitz

#3. Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.

Kris Saknussemm

#4. To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.

John Daido Loori

#5. I'm much more character based. I try to just be really committed to what I'm doing.

John C. Reilly

#6. We live now in a world where any insult is treated like being shot at by a .38 at four feet.

Kris Saknussemm

#7. That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.

Will Ferrell

#8. One of the most egregiously stupid books I've ever come across. I would recommend reading this only because it's the epitome of all that is moronic, superficial, contrived, hollow, false and utterly laughable in publishing today.

Kris Saknussemm

#9. People are only what they think of themselves.

Ai Yazawa

#10. But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

Henry Van Dyke

#11. Spiral minds are harder to twist.

Kris Saknussemm

#12. You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot.

Betty Wright

#13. Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also reminds me of James Purdy's notorious eccentricity. There's plenty of middlebrow stuff if you want it. Self-Murder isn't that.

Kris Saknussemm

#14. Four types of psychological distance can separate you from your goals: social (between yourself and other people), temporal (between the present and the future), spatial (between your physical location and faraway places), and experiential (between imagining something and experiencing it).

Anonymous

#15. Voltaire said you know who is in control by what you can't say.

Kris Saknussemm

#16. Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.

Kris Saknussemm