Buchdruck Erfunden Quotes & Sayings

Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical. — Thomas B. Macaulay

To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy. — Criss Jami

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad. — Paul Reubens

The best place to bury a dead love is deep in the depths of memory where it can be cherished forever. — Georgina Gentry

Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy. — Nenia Campbell

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose
and then to find
ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end. — Charles C. Mann

You know you're closest to Heaven in your life, when Hell throws everything it has to try and stop you from reaching your dreams. — A.M. Sawyer

Hagrid was wearing his best (and very horrible) hairy brown suit, plus a checked yellow-and-orange tie. This wasn't the worst of it, though; he had evidently tried to tame his hair, using large quantities of what appeared to be axle grease. — Anonymous

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. — Jane Austen