Aufbauschen Quotes & Sayings

The incident made her remember the story she had heard about the girl who was raised in a room with no horizontal lines. She couldn't recall whether the story was true or simply a thought experiment, but the room, as she remembered it, was decorated with a series of black verticle stripes on the walls, and the floor and ceiling were curved to give the illusion that the verticle stripes were continuous. On the child's first birthday, the story went, she was taken out of the room. She had learned how to recognize verticle forms, but not horizontal ones, so that if she was situated on a table, say, or a platform, she would crawl right off the edge, but she would never run into the corner of a wall or the leg of a chair. Her condition lasted for about a month before her visual sense finally corrected itself. — Kevin Brockmeier

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Everyone romanticizes somebody. — Zooey Deschanel

If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman — Billy Bragg

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding. — Bryant McGill

What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it. — A.A. Milne

Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available. — Pearl S. Buck