Demian Author Quotes & Sayings

I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done. — Melissa McCarthy

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all ... — Henri Frederic Amiel

Before the Second World War, more than nine million Jews were living in Europe, most of them in lands that were or had been part of the Russian Empire. — Masha Gessen

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time. — Nolan Bushnell

They understood, as few have understood before or since, how fleeting life is and how pointless to try to hold on to things or people. They pursued the wondrous deed, the heroic gesture: fighting, fucking, drinking, art - poetry for intense emotion, the music that accompanied the heroic drinking with which each day ended, bewitching ornament for one's person and possessions. — Thomas Cahill

Jesus. Good thing he's not a traffic cop, because he's sending enough mixed signals to cause a ten-car pileup. — Sarina Bowen

Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible. — Thomas Jefferson

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home. — Johnny Vegas