Ausmachen Quotes & Sayings

We think of ourselves now as eaters of the pie instead of makes of the pie ... Corporations make the pie. They make it and we eat it. — David Foster Wallace

One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind. — G.I. Gurdjieff

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him. — Plato

Pillars arched above them, and Max stared at the worn carvings, the high stone walls, the thick candles that dripped from suspended iron wheels. His skin went cold and clammy. Rain wept against the stained glass windows. The space around him was vast and terrifying; thick gnarled columns trailed off into the gloom. In the hushed silence nothing moved. — Christine Brodien-Jones

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that
And manage it against despairing thoughts. — William Shakespeare

The world will not fall apart. — Keri Smith

We can look at the way of improving the key biochemical processes like photosynthesis itself. A lot of energy is lost to keep the plant cool. So maybe we can think of building plants which are more resistant to heat. Genetically modified plants can be one answer and we can imagine more efficient plants, call them 'energy plants'. And I believe, contrary to what ecologists think, they can still be beautiful plants. — Jean-Marie Lehn

I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, "We gotcha." America gotcha. — George Foreman

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it. — Susan Sontag

A friend of mine that happened to be a DJ at another club actually offered me a job [as a DJ]. I didn't think I could do it but he said, "You know all the music. You are at all the parties, and everybody knows you." — Frankie Knuckles

Everyone always believes him to be the person they think he is, which in truth is no one — Kate Walbert

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. — Jane Hamilton