Anstatt Backpapier Quotes & Sayings

Discomfort is sometimes what is most precious to me about great art. — Christos Tsiolkas

As great Pythagoras of yore,
Standing beside the blacksmith's door,
And hearing the hammers, as they smote
The anvils with a different note,
Stole from the varying tones, that hung
Vibrant on every iron tongue,
The secret of the sounding wire.
And formed the seven-chorded lyre. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship. — Clement Attlee

Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more. — Scott Adams

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work. — David Riesman

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. — Ramsey Clark

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. — Thomas Jefferson

The budding rose above the rose full blown. — William Wordsworth

Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life ... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Marines either know how to use an iron or they get married [ ... ]. The iron is less dangerous. — Madeleine Urban

A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being what he has made them, may be omnipotent and various other things, but he is not what the English language has always intended by the adjective holy. — John Stuart Mill

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in. — Glenda Jackson

A good hanging now and then
that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Really, you just play football; that's all I can do ... I don't change. I'm going to always play tough, hard - that's the way I was brought up at Nebraska, where I really learned football from the Pelinis and that staff and continue to play hard, play blue-collar football. — Ndamukong Suh

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar. — Mal Peet