"No matter where you go, no matter where you live, a Kansas fan is a Kansas fan: implacable, insufferable and perfectly happy to stay that way."

-- Paul Shirley

#Kansas Quotes #Matter Quotes #Way Quotes

“I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions”

Source : Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.317, Penguin
“Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.”
“Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there.”
“Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.”
“I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.”
“Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of their skulls and feeling depressed, then being consoled by some little thing like watching the patterns the light makes through the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the sidewalks. I remember the line from that poem now. Downward to darkness, on extended wings.”
“I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.”
“They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.”

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