Dortmunder Nachrichten Quotes & Sayings

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a bringer of Promethean fire, some unique transmission that comes out of nowhere. I prefer the opposite view - that writers come from somewhere. They read things, and they think about them, and they incorporate other people's thoughts. — Jonathan Lethem

The business of politics, which essentially meant screwing others before they got around to screwing you. — David Baldacci

Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat. — Dave Pelzer

We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil. — J.R.R. Tolkien

We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time. — Glenn Frey

The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights ... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses. — Ralph Nader

Call Loretta Lynch for a vote. Get her confirmed. Put her in place. Let her do her job. — Barack Obama

There is an unequivocal question in every layer of a dawn's beautiful rise that asks: "What are you going to do with this one glorious day? — Melanie Gow

The world needs more love at first sight. — Maggie Stiefvater

If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper on it and name it's color, I know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin. — Sarah Weeks

I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going on all the time. — Ronda Rousey