Brentanos Quotes & Sayings

My sense of weightlessness, I think, comes from the fact that I know so little about my past.. — Gillian Flynn

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal. — Marina And The Diamonds

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys. — James Anthony Froude

As I work day after day, inspirations from different places go into the work. It's combination, but it's also comparative. I'll be reading two books at the same time that are totally different [and] then have two stories mix together. — Ali Banisadr

I believe in low theory in popular places, in the small, the inconsequential, the antimonumental, the micro, the irrelevant; I believe in making a difference by thinking little thoughts and sharing them widely. I seek to provoke, annoy, bother, irritate, and amuse; I am chasing small projects, micropolitics, hunches, whims, fancies. — J. Jack Halberstam

I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences. — Buck Owens

I've got this perception of Beethoven where he's just, like, really pissed all the time. Yeah, ol' Ludwig, he had a lot to pound on the piano bitterly about. I'm Germannnn! I'm deaffff! I'm bliiiind! My name is Ludwigggg!

Was he blind? I'm pretty sure.

Or, wait, maybe that was Helen Keller.

Was he even German?

Was she German?

Is Ludwig a name?

I'm starting to worry I'm just making shit up. — Hannah Johnson

Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it. — Eckhart Tolle