Dr Christian Szell Quotes & Sayings

If you look at 1983, the film of the year was 'Terms of Endearment.' 'Scarface' was lumped in under the gratuitously violent banner. I mean, we knew it was violent, that it depicted a violent time and place. But it wasn't the end-all of the thing. — Steven Bauer

It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily. — Fanny Fern

If we set our minds, we can achieve anything. — Gabby Douglas

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner. — James Dyson

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things? — Dodie Smith

The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened. — Lin Yutang

I heave a painful gasp, trying to catch my breath. My cheeks feel wet, though I don't remember crying. Executed. My blood boils under my skin. It's a lie. He didn't run. He was in the Guard. And they found out. They killed him for it. They murdered him. — Victoria Aveyard

When these long telephone silences come, it is a sure sign that love is over. — Walker Percy

It was a sucker punch. But you know who gets hit by sucker punches? Suckers. — Max Kellerman

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. — Hubert H. Humphrey