Kara Kellogg:
CLASS OF 1984
Elsik High SchoolClass of 1984
Houston, TX
Kara's Story
Kara is from Houston, Texas. Kara's schools include Elsik High School. Kara later attended Texas A&M UniversityâKingsville (English) .
Music Kara likes includes Stevie Nicks, Walk Off The Earth, The Gipsy Kings. Books Kara likes include Wuthering Heights, Oh, the Places You'll Go. Movies Kara likes include Gone With The Wind, The Silence Of The Lambs, Unforgiven. TV shows Kara likes include E:60, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, MasterChef.
One of Kara's favorite quotes is:"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get an upper hand on me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the shi...Expand for more
p. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde
Ultimate conclusions are beyond our reach, but the quality of our endeavor is a gauge of the worthiness of our cause.
John J. McDermott
But what can the letters say? They are the black bars of the prison where the spirit strangles itself screaming. Between the letters and the lines, and all around the blank margins, the spirit circulates freely; and I circulate with it and bring you this great message.
Nikos Kazantzakis
In the works of Voltaire, we find a reference to a letter from Henry IV to an ill-knighted person by the name of of Crillon, who, most unfortunately, arrived after a great battle had been fought. To tardy Crillon, Henry IV wrote: "Hang yourself, brave Crillon. We fought Arques, and you were not there."
Ed: Night has fallen. And there's nothin' we can do about it. Deliverance
âThe human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.â ~Winston Churchill.".
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