Chinesischer Turm Quotes & Sayings

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading. — Diane Setterfield

Yes, I have been forced to whittle down the facts, and to be a liar, but it is not one universe, there are millions, almost as many as the number of human eyes and brains in existence, that awake every morning. — Marcel Proust

We're all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food. — Richard Simmons

I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything. — Rupert Friend

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress
to the future. — Erich Maria Remarque

Character is very much a matter of health. — Christian Nestell Bovee

There should be moderation in everything. — Jane Austen

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later. — Agatha Christie

The citizen lives in each of us. In the days of Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, I was constantly trying to suppress the responsible citizen in me. I told myself that I was, after all, an artist. — Vladimir Sorokin

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them. — Antonio Banderas

Hatred is hurt masquerading-it is an energy used to fool someone into thinking they are frightening when in truth they are frightened. — Jewel

Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film. — Haile Gerima

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. — John Thorn

Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing
with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring
with replacing the noun. It is doing that always
doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that.
Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and
pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is
what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no
matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a
great many kinds of poetry. — Gertrude Stein

After all, a silent fart has a smell that really sticks! — W.W. Wright