Burkard Schliessmann Quotes & Sayings

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever. — Orson Scott Card

To forgive others, in order to forgive ourselves, because in their roles as our mirrors, they have been nothing other than a tool to our lack of self-love, a lack of self-recognition, and a lack of self-respect. — Human Angels

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way. — Robert Breault

In every part of my life, too, I stood outside myself and watched; I saw myself functioning at the university, with my parents and brother and sister and my friends, but inwardly I felt no involvement. — Bernhard Schlink

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer. — William Holden

'Backwash' is an old-school, slapstick-y romp between three eccentric loser friends who inadvertently rob a bank, armed solely with a salami and a sweat sock, and then find themselves on the run pursued by singing cops. It's kind of a classic piece, a sophisticated piece, if you will. — Joshua Malina

I'm very clever,' said the Doctor. It was a good line, and he was determined to use it as much as possible. — Neil Gaiman

Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature. — Luc De Clapiers

They think that your body creates a desire and makes a choice for you just about in some such way as if iron ore transformed itself into railroad rails of its own volition. Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions. Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. — Ayn Rand

With such disappointing lunkheads for parents, naturally Petunia must leave home. — Paul Schmid