Angermaier Online Quotes & Sayings

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly. — Lu Yen-hsun

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. — Salman Rushdie

Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will. — Lysander Spooner

(One of the best-kept secrets of "country life" is that people accidentally crush their own pets a lot.) The — Tina Fey

I love you," he says quietly. I want to take his words, the truth of them I can see on his face, and cup them in my hands like a glowing coal from the fire. Keep them with me warm and bright, a talisman. — Amy Engel

I warned you about those sexually graphic descriptions. Now you've alienated our only breakfast friend, a homophobic Republican on crack. — Edmond Manning

I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it. — Nonito Donaire

Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity ... — Albion Fellows Bacon

Education is the number one priority. — Vincent Kartheiser

I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the silence that grows palpable when one has finished a canto of Dante, he says, is quite different from the silence that grows palpable when one has reached the end of Oedipus at Colonus. The most terrible thing that has happened to people today, he says, is that they have grown frightened of silence. Instead of seeking it as a friend and as a source of renewal they now try in every way they can to shut it out ... the fear of silence is the fear of loneliness, he says, and the fear of loneliness is the fear of silence. People fear silence, he says, because they have lost the ability to trust the world to bring about renewal. Silence for them means only the recognition that they have been abandoned ... How can people find the strength to be happy if they are so terrified of silence? — Gabriel Josipovici