Alphaville Forever Quotes & Sayings

I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier. — Stephen Merchant

I wanna be forever young. — Alphaville

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text, — Henry James

If nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be. — Sylvia Engdahl

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant. — Andy Couturier

It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you. — Suzy Bogguss

The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore. — John Steinbeck

Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class. — George Will

I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their worst liability: the price and inconvenience of actual bookness. — John Hodgman

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! — Honore De Balzac

And for what portion of human history had people even had desk jobs? — Rebecca Makkai

Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore. — Walter Russell Mead

To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience. — Jillian Medoff