Ekkehart Boehmer Quotes & Sayings

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else. — Pablo Picasso

I was in no way ready when my daughter was born. But I want to be a good father to her. — El DeBarge

Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure. — Conor McGregor

I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking "Uptown Girl!" I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called "Ragdoll," which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy. — Billy Joel

For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde. — Geoffrey Chaucer

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. — Ambrose Bierce

No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful ... — C. Wright Mills

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace. — Gautama Buddha

Smile...it kills time between disasters. — Barbara Johnson

I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. — Suzanne Collins

She had a face so
charming that visitors of all ages and both sexes would stand stockstill at the sight of her,
unable to pull their eyes away, practically licking that face with their eyes, the way
tongues work at ice cream, with that typically stupid, single
minded expression on their
faces that goes with concentrated licking — Patrick Suskind

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates. — Rich Lowry