Bernreuther Michelle Quotes & Sayings

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. — Dan Simmons

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture. — Thom Mayne

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. — Viktor E. Frankl

In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict and political objectives would be lost. — Henry A. Kissinger

Please do not ask me," I interrupt, my voice so wobbly the words barely get out. "There are secrets so dangerous one shouldn't even confess them to the dearest of friends. — Aprilynne Pike

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do. — Don Cheadle

WKRP [showed] something happening between people-there was something underneath about people trying to help each other out. — Howard Hesseman

To him, freedom was greater than love.
She hated that.
Because she had always thought that love was freedom. — Tessa Shaffer

It had been as if she'd talked to God, praising the universe through twinkling stars. — Jettie Woodruff

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles. — Samuel Johnson

Bertolt Brecht's observation in The Threepenny Opera that eating takes precedence over morality. Emerging — Satyajit Das

there are things in our souls which we know not how much they mean to us. Or rather, if we live without them, it is because, either through fear of failing or suffering, we daily postpone the moment of coming under their thrall. — Marcel Proust

... for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change. — Louisa May Alcott

Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground. — Nick Drake