Deutschmann Quotes & Sayings

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman. — John Milton

Nutshells close and encapsulate, shelter and protect, reduce and simplify, while everything in deconstruction is turned toward opening, exposure, expansion, and complexification, toward releasing unheard of, undreamt of possibilities to come, toward cracking nutshells wherever they appear. — John D. Caputo

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. — Burt Bacharach

He says nothing. Not because he disagrees, or disapproves, but because he's crying. Faintly I hear my father sniffling and wiping away tears, and I know he's proud, just incapable of expressing it. I can't fault the man for not knowing how to say what's in his heart. It's the family curse. — Andre Agassi

I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.' — Todd Rokita

You wanna be the next Tolkien? Don't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. TOLKIEN didn't read big, tolkien-esque fantasies. He read books on finnish philology. You go and read outside your comfort zone, go and learn stuff. And then the most important thing, once you get any level of quality
get to the point where you wanna write, and you can write
is tell YOUR story. Don't tell a story anyone else can tell. Because you always start out with other people's voices ... There will always be people who are better or smarter than you. There are people who are better writers than me, who plot better than I do, but there is no one who can tell a Neil Gaiman story like I can. — Neil Gaiman

The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only. — Dorothy Parker

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor

When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away. — L.M. Montgomery

She'd learned that to cling too tightly was to strangle. — Erika Swyler

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character. — Brian Tracy

That's what Paradise is- never knowing the difference. — Joseph Heller

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off. — Val Kilmer

Superstitions are just coincidence or ignorance. — Ron Rash

The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced. The world does not know that a people is great until that people produces great literature and art. No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior. — James Weldon Johnson