Anselmus Quotes & Sayings

Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly. — Lin Yutang

It takes Rs. 10 per kms in Ahmedabad by auto- rickshaw, but it took us only Rs. 7 per kms to reach Mars. — Narendra Modi

Satan trembles, when he sees the weakest Saint upon his knees. — William Cowper

I was raised to farm work. — Abraham Lincoln

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. — Hank Aaron

Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age. — Mata Amritanandamayi

I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films. — Paul Schrader

Highly successful people take immediate action on almost every item they encounter. — Kevin Kruse

It may be, after all," said the Student Anselmus to himself, "that the superfine stomachic liqueur, which I took somewhat freely in Monsieur Conradi's, might really be the cause of all these shocking phantasms, which tortured me so at Archivarius Lindhorst's door. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

God has given you the power and desire to change but you still need to be willing to do the work. Doing the work means facing your fears and getting out of your comfort zone. — Michael Barbarulo

Watch a good movie sometime without reference to what's happening but only with attention to how it was photographed; you'll see the change of focus - zoom in, pan out, close-up on face, fade to black, open from above - easily. You want to do that in what you write; it's one of the things that keep people's eyes on the page, though they're almost never conscious of it. — Diana Gabaldon

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it. — Richard Ford

You dare not lift your hands to place God's name in blessing on his people until you have first clasped them in penitent petition for his grace. — Edmund P. Clowney

Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation. — Cormac McCarthy

I got my first book deal when I was in college, but it was published in Germany, and I could never actually read it. — Michelle Moran

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself. — Amy Winehouse