Kenn Amdahl > Quotes

“Magnificent phrases like 'inductive reactance' flow effortlessly from the lips of guys who can't cook hot dogs or find the flashing blue light in a K-Mart store.”
― Kenn Amdahl

“The knee-high grass looked like something snakes would enjoy.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“I could not focus on any one subject for long because my mind was cotton candy, wisps and swirls and strands, without substance.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“She glowed like a lighthouse and rolled like the ocean”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“You and I have the most interesting jobs in the universe: We run the Intergalactic Steam Circus, a most outrageous and bizarre affair. Traveling in wildly colorful space clippers, we sail from planet to planet in a huge parade, landing just outside the major population centers, setting up our magnificent and gaudy tents, and selling the people our magic of noise, confusion, bright lights, and trickery. There are, of course, beautiful young women strutting like cats in scanty sequined outfits, and handsome young men with tanned and muscular bodies, their shirts open to the waist. But that’s not what draws the crowds, day after day, planet after planet. They come to see the machinery.”
― Kenn Amdahl, There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings

“Can you make a wrong turn when you don’t know where you’re going?”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“The “guest house” was a creaking carcass of a shed that was being slowly sucked into the muddy ground.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“Magnolia danced like a planet would dance, rotating and orbiting, confident in her own gravity.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“He was drunk enough that he was willing to share his wisdom with me.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“The ground was so full of life that it could not contain itself, erupting everywhere in a delirium of vegetation.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“poor people will cheerfully give you their money. Rich people will give you advice.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“Men are salamanders in My terrarium, trying to fathom the events beyond the glass.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“an afternoon choreographed by Dante, with music by Stephen King. The car was a furnace.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“A life had somehow escaped through a rip in the universe.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“When a book ends, the good parts get folded up and carried around in somebody’s pocket. The rest gets sold at a garage sale for a nickel.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“I’m a cliché,” he said softly. “What?” “I’m a story everyone’s heard a thousand times.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“I was a leaf that had released its hold on the tree. This was my moment of motion, of flight – my solitary dance through the air, separate from my billion twins. No longer green and faceless on the tree, not yet crushed and decomposing on the forest floor.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“Most folks remember who they used to be, but they got no idea who they are right now.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“That’s the problem with civilization. Folks think someone else got to make up their rituals for ‘em.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“It was a malicious heat, heavy as iron, that invaded my body each time I inhaled.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo

“A person’s what they fear and what they love.”
― Kenn Amdahl, The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo