Dichterskwartier Quotes & Sayings

I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in. — John Wells

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are. — Paula Abdul

Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery. — Swami Vivekananda

Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself. A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft. He needs real wealth, in the form of a fishing rod, a compass, an outboard motor with gas, and a female companion. But this ingrained and archaic confusion of money with wealth is now the main reason we are not going ahead full tilt with the development of our technological genius for the production of more than adequate food, clothing, housing, and utilities for every person on earth. — Alan W. Watts

How outrageous could he get, in the realm of fatuous neologism, and still achieve praise? — Margaret Atwood

The future of American film lies on television. — David Hare

U.A.E.'s continuously growing initiatives in the field of charitable and humanitarian works became a basic component of our foreign activities. — Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Woman! experience might have told me,
That all must love thee who behold thee:
Surely experience might have taught
Thy firmest promises are nought:
But, placed in all thy charms before me,
All I forget, but to adore thee. — George Gordon Byron

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor. — Angelina Jolie

The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss. — Douglas Coupland

Maybe it's true that shared trauma brings people closer together-a common hardship, a battle to survive-because when times are quiet people relax and go their own separate ways. They're lulled into believing they've got everything under control and don't need what they did before. — Laura Wiess