Bedeutende Quotes & Sayings

..those soul-satisfying feelings quickly capture our attention, and we no longer wish to pay attention to physical clues. Instead, our focus is on the immense satisfaction the feelings are providing. — Errol R. Fish

Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - 'Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new. — Salman Rushdie

The national defense must be provided for as well as the support of Government; but both should be accomplished as much as possible by immediate taxes, and as little as possible by loans. — John Adams

rule of negotiation is don't check your emotion at the door, but don't let it cloud your mind. — Eve Jagger

You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil. I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells in all of us ... I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so-called civilized society ... You maggots make me sick! Hypocrites one and all ... I don't need to hear all of society's rationalizations. I've heard them all before ... legions of the night, night breed, repeat not the errors of the night prowler and show no mercy. — Richard Ramirez

Your voice and music are the same to me. — Charles Dickens

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems. — Terence McKenna

But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom. — Mordechai Vanunu

This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky. — Denis Leary

In New Orleans, no matter how much money you had in the bank, you looked on poverty every day. — Dan Baum

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting. — Fernando Botero