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Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't. -- Darren Shan
Faith is like a kernel of wheat. -- Joe Bob Briggs
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel. -- Charles Spurgeon
Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke. -- Alan Dundes
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. -- Harry Dean Stanton
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. -- Edward P. Jones
I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it. -- Richard Eyre
Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in. -- Aimee Mullins
To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge. -- Rob Pike
One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is. -- Linus Torvalds
Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story. -- Debbie Harry
I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me. -- Forest Whitaker
It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring. -- Linus Torvalds
I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. -- Linus Torvalds
Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel. -- Richard Stallman
Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them. -- Orville Redenbacher
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle. -- Rumi
I find inspiration in many places. Sometimes music gives me the kernel of a story. Sometimes it's dissatisfaction with the plot of a movie or a book that gets me thinking. Sometimes it's love of a movie or book. -- Christopher Paolini
All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn't whether our food has been modified, but how. -- Michael Specter
Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We in the ivory tower ultimately have to realize that in some sense we have to sing for our supper. -- Michio Kaku
Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different. -- Huston Smith
A standard sitcom... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each other, and all these people living with each other. It's like, okay, we hooked them up in episode 15, how do we bust that, how do we find a new kernel in it? -- Dave Finkel
It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great. -- Graeme Base
We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn - to an ingredient economy where there will be a kernel of corn that will be designed for fuel, there will be a kernel of corn designed for livestock. -- Tom Vilsack
I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character, lines of dialogue, descriptive passages about a place. One idea fires another. I do that for about a year. By then there's a story, and I'll go on to a complete first draft that sews many of those ragtag pieces together. -- Scott Turow
Nature has neither kernel Nor shell -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth. -- Marisha Pessl
Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel. -- Bahya ibn Paquda
Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten. -- Karen Azinger
I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel. -- Johannes Kepler
It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards. -- Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma. -- Peace Pilgrim
The kernel of the 11th house is 'the urge to become something greater than we already are'. -- Howard Sasportas
While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today. -- Darl McBride
All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel. -- Sathya Sai Baba
We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel. -- David Hilbert
The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive. -- Linus Torvalds
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.] -- Plautus
The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul. -- Joseph Conrad
I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation. -- James Grant
Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I think [Ann Coulter] understands that, she's Pavlov's dog. She gets the corn kernel if she hits that drum once in a while. -- Dennis Miller
Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store. -- Saadi
A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a book. -- Carol Higgins Clark
The kernel, the soul"?let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances"?is plagiarism, -- Jonathan Lethem
The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. -- Meister Eckhart
sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody. -- Haruki Murakami
Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten. -- Sara Shepard
The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become. -- Kate Elliott
The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good. -- Helen Keller
Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all. -- Wallace Thurman
A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout. -- Hugh Howey
Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. -- Vasily Grossman
A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be. -- Isaac Asimov
I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see that there's some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way. -- Joe Bradley
"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it." -- Henry David Thoreau
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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