Czernin Quotes & Sayings

I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun. — Donal Logue

I'm tired of hating you ... When all my heart has ever needed is to love you. — R.K. Lilley

House of the Dead 2 I gave away. Alone in the Dark 2 I will also not do; even if the DVD movie made money. BloodRayne 2 in the Wild West is what I really want to do. — Uwe Boll

Sometimes broken people stay broken. — Patricia Briggs

Literature destabilizes thought by breaking open language and smuggling in sound, rhythm, and image--an invasion of aesthetics. More easily than analytic writing, poetry can emancipate itself from the standard definitions of words, enabling a breakthrough to new (and perhaps wayward or even nonsensical) meaning, which can then develop after the fact--different at each new reading. Literary language is presumptuous. It dips into the unknown in order to get nearer to a truth different from that of the superficially visible. As the poet Franz Josef Czernin described it, it is as though one step after another into emptiness could become a ladder. Literary writing can take the writers themselves by surprise; it can disturb and disappoint them--for stirring up turmoil is inherent in metaphor. Thus with every flash of understanding that comes from hearing or reading a poem, the fundamental work of thinking is taken up anew. — Marie Luise Knott

As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance? — Michael Porter

I'm no expert in vibrators, but I was surprised to learn that one could fit in that little box. — Henry Blodget

And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars. — Anne Rice

You never say no to the opportunity to piss, to eat, or to get half an hour's shut-eye. — Neil Gaiman

There were other times when she was so shattered by ideas that she could do nothing worth while; when they trampled over her like an army and she felt as if she were bleeding to death under them. — Willa Cather

There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl's dress. — Ernest K. Gann

Well for those who will be called upon to serve as soldiers in the ranks of whoever comes to build the new world. June, 1919. — Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria Czernin Von Und Zu Chudenitz

According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq possesses some 25,000 liters of anthrax. This is, for the record, more than 5 million teaspoons of anthrax. And we have no idea where any of it is. Saddam Hussein has never accounted for one grain of it. — Richard Armitage

Some people take after their parents. Some people are reactions to their parents. I think you and I are in the second group. — Erin Saldin

It's kinda crazy to say, but the way Jay [Duplass] and I stay afloat, because we don't make particularly commercial fare that makes a lot of money, is that we make things cheaply and we make things small. We would kind of be afraid to go make a $100 million movie because you have to do certain things to it to have it make its money back. — Mark Duplass

I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little comfortable suburban house in Michigan, looking at CNN and saying, "Oh, those poor immigrant children that are all coming across the border. But we really can't have them here - that isn't what God wants. Let's send them all back to the drug cartels." There's a complacency to it. — Stephen King