Direktor Quotes & Sayings

Any good groupie loves the music so much it's part of the bloodstream — Pamela Des Barres

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back. — Alfred De Musset

It's so rarely about military genius, who the greater tactician might be, who sat higher in his class at West Point. It's about mistakes, some of them unavoidable, some of them purely stupid. My job is to make fewer mistakes than the enemy, — Jeff Shaara

The world is fine and everything is normal and then, bang, you just get bowled over by the wrathful deities somehow. That happens in very small ways and happens in very large ways when you have a major conflagration in the world. It's another cycle of existence of human beings. — Bill Viola

We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health ... and do what's right for her! — Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern. — Alan Greenspan

The mistakes we make everyday is to remind us that we are human. — Tai Jamison

I stopped talking to people long before I'd figured out how to. — Kristin Halbrook

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn. — Kahlil Gibran

A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago. — Peter Diamandis

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. — Arthur C. Clarke

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave. — Sextus Propertius

Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile, showerheads and good dry towelsand frying eggs sound like psalms, with bits of salt measured in my palm. It's all a part of a sacrament, as holy as a day is spent ... — Carrie Newcomer

He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food ... of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of buns ... He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods ... endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavor with flavor from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of brandy. — Evelyn Waugh

Mr. Young hadn't had to quiet a screaming baby for years. H'ed never been much good at it to start with. He'd always respected Sir Winston Churchill, and patting small versions of him on the bottom had always seemed ungracious. — Terry Pratchett

It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of Jesus which hung on Emilie's wall. Since this narrative has tried to avoid the canonisation of the Herr Direktor, the idea of the sensual Oskar as the desirer of souls has to be proved. — Thomas Keneally