Briefwechselroman Quotes & Sayings

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive. — John Cassavetes

To-day man is, and to-morrow he will be seen no more. And being removed out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind. O the dulness and hardness of man's heart, which thinketh only of the present, and looketh not forward to the future. Thou oughtest in every deed and thought so to order thyself, as if thou wert to die this day. — Thomas A Kempis

So also in culture. Infinite players understand that the vigor of a culture has to do with the variety of its sources, the differences within itself. The unique and the surprising are not suppressed in some persons for the strength of others. The genius in you stimulates the genius in me. — James P. Carse

Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion. — Ludwig Lewisohn

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind. — Maya Angelou

Everyone has a weakness. Even a demigod. — Christina Farley

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing ... should be taught to every child just as writing is. — John Ruskin

I don't know anything about the history of music. — Sia Furler

If you can believe in something great, then you can achieve something great. — Katy Perry

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men. — John Aubrey

My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar. — Doc Watson