List of Topics starting with [K]

Dewar's and water," I said. "Yes. I don't care really, but everyone at work says if you don't order by name they give you bar ...

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself ...

A kid just couldn't see the difference. It was like being color-blind or something, or preferring Frazetta to all those blobby old paintings of haystacks ...

The passageway smelled like decaying bodies and lavender. Her nose found it entertaining. The rocky tunnel ate their footsteps. Camin Barice wanted it to steal ...

In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.

The return of the Independent Bookstore is the answer to the stack 'em high, sell 'em cheap megastores.

Common sense is only irritating in other people

When people are in a focused state, the words "I can't," "I'll try," "I'll do it tomorrow," and "maybe" get forced out of their vocabularies.

We seek to perfect what we are, not to constantly alter it. We seek to find something that is a true expression of our soul ...

To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don't have to incur the pain that it takes ...

I think I could get full just smelling this.

Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise.

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.

There was one part of my life where I would go out every night. Ha-ha, if I missed going out to the club, it was ...

We have to be in a listening mode: it is about dialogue, about listening to what the others have to say, about cooperating in the ...

Truly barren is a secular education. It is always in labor, but never gives birth.

He is a liar, a thief, a killer and a cannibal. And he is running for political office! Someone must stop him.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

Millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred ...

Gravity is why there are suns and planets in the first place. It is practically God.

Their sneak-out was over. But by then it was too late. In his mind, Katherine I was already becoming Katherine XIX. She would soon retake ...

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.

You can't slice up morals.

Let me get this straight...You are sending me out in a minivan whose date of manufacture predates the year of my birth, so that I ...

An elderly man called Keith Mislaid his set of false teeth - They'd been laid on a chair, He'd forgot they were there, Sat down, ...

You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really ...

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film ...

Nearly everyone in ancient Egypt exhorted the gods to let the Pharaoh live 'forever. These collective prayers failed. Their failure constitutes data.

The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

The world is God's workshop for making men in.

The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.

Normal's the watchword

Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, ...

Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

How can you ask me when i want to get married when you have yet to ask me if i will marry you?

Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave ...

He wrote: 'We make ourselves real by telling the truth

My commitment runs deep, and there's no end to it. She's inside me, wrapped around me like a tumor. There's no way to cut her ...

Parker always felt things in his bones because, he said, it saved space

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about ...

It isn't about what you don't get done; it's about what you do get done.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what ...

I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree, ...

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but ...

Whenever I was on the podium, it felt weird. I was obviously happy to have done well, but it wasn't truly happy from the bottom ...

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,as ...

I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether

Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can't afford to let it in ... We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must ...

Some of us should learn to ask for bold things that require God.

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.

Until 1982, Canada Day was known as Dominion Day. I always thought that had more of a ring to it. Beyond the zippy alliteration, it ...

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

There are people who want to import the dregs of the world into this country in order to cut this country down to size. Do ...

Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.

A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems - dreams, myth, history - from ...

At the best of times, democracy is a seesaw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion. You see, to make a democratic omelette you have to ...

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

You have got to be good in that town if you want to beat the crowd.' So says young John on his first sight of ...

I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be ...

Demonstrated that the more you owed a country the more business you did with it.

I always stood out as being different...and unwilling to accept the phrase 'I am a girl' as an ending to any type of sentence that ...

I just don't get it. I've spent my whole life hiding the things I can't do. Why run from the amazing things you can do?

I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection of ...

Why do you hate yourself?"And before I know it, Gat is lying on the bed next to me. His cold fingers wrap around my hot ...

People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very ...

Any event largely organized by elementary school teachers was likely to come off extremely well from a logistical and crowd-control standpoint.

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn ...

Flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

I need some encouragement. I need to ask myself, "What would an Apollo astronaut do?" He'd drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the ...

As a woman i know the difference between appreciation and teeth. what really hurts is that as a girl i had to know the same ...

When you see your fellow religious man, don't call him brother; but when you see a man of honour, a man of goodness, a man ...

My best advice foryou, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to worklike hell. Hang onto ...

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

The weird thing about saying good-bye is that it never gets easier.

It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in ...

Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone

I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when ...

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What ...

What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more ...

The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in ...

To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee ...

There are people who don't vote for a lot of reasons, sometimes as a statement.

New country music comprises about five percent of what I hear per year. I enjoy it, but I don't really take note of who's singing ...

What colors are the eyes of Anubis?""Brown...Duh.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

She straightened. "You tried to seduce me, for information.""You can't hold that against me forever.""It was last night.""Well I was running out of options, and ...

I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what I want so ...

She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.

Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?''Sometimes.''So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, ...

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and ...

Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.