#sai

People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.' ↗

— Ed Koch

#decided #free #get #god #help

Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#details #exactly #fast #get #goes

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#connoisseur #interviewed #once #own #picasso

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.' ↗

— Rip Torn

#gee #grew #hope #i #man

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#horror #i #i do #like #million

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#absolutely #century #correct #evils #freud

She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money. ↗

— Dennis Kozlowski

#am #i #i am #lawyers #life

But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#believed #college #fun #god #got

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#absolutely #america #crucial #giving #governor

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.' ↗

— Alison Krauss

#carolina #dance #fiddle #fiddler #got