Abschluss Quotes & Sayings

I've had so many different influences musically, even from people who aren't even musicians. If you're inspired by someone and you document it musically, then they are your influence. — Mark Salling

There is no tragedy without commitment; no negation even, without it. — John Peter Nettl

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around? — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Last night I felt the approach of nothing. Not too close but on its way, like a wingbeat, like the cooling of the wind, the slight initial tug of an undertow. — Margaret Atwood

I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus. — Zakk Wylde

Our society assigns us a tiny number of roles: We're producers of one thing at work, consumers of a great many things all the rest of the time, and then, once a year or so, we take on the temporary role of citizen and cast a vote. Virtually all our needs and desires we delegate to specialists of one kind or another - our meals to the food industry, our health to the medical profession, entertainment to Hollywood and the media, mental health to the therapist or the drug company, caring for nature to the environmentalist, political action to the politician, and on and on it goes. Before long it becomes hard to imagine doing much of anything for ourselves - anything, that is, except the work we do "to make a living." For everything else, we feel like we've lost the skills, or that there's someone who can do it better ... it seems as though we can no longer imagine anyone but a professional or an institution or a product supplying our daily needs or solving our problems. — Michael Pollan

As long as you are hanging around amateurs, you will think like an amateur, and you will not improve your skills. — John C. Maxwell

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line. — Adrien Brody

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent. — Nikola Tesla

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173) — Deb Caletti

The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love ... There was no more hating then, And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man. — Edith Sitwell

And don't rush to make movies. Movies should be made when they're absolutely ready. There's too many bad movies being made. — James Ponsoldt

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn — Idries Shah

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better. — Helen Keller

Obedience is fickle that way. It's a virtue to its master but a vice to its slaves. — Holly Bodger