Kimberly > Kimberly's Quotes

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
― Plato

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.”
― Plato

“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

“Destiny cuts
the cake of love,
Three slices to some,
To others, a crumb.”
― Stefano Benni, Margherita Dolce Vita

“That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.”
― Stefano Benni, Margherita Dolce Vita

“[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however. These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however.”
― Stefano Benni, Margherita Dolce Vita

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
― George Carlin