Erbsensuppe Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot makes us share their lives, not in a spirit of condescension or of curiosity, but in a spirit of sympathy. She is no satirist ... But she gathers in her large grasp a great bunch of the main elements of human nature and groups them loosely together with a tolerant understanding which, as one finds upon re-reading, has not only kept her figures fresh and free, but has given them an unexpected hold upon our laughter and tears. — Virginia Woolf

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent. — Richard Rogers

You can touch everything and be connected to nothing. — Jodi Picoult

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored. — Neil Gaiman

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts. — Elton John

Long patience and application saturated with your heart's blood-you will either write or you will not-and the only way to find out whether you will or not is to try. — Jim Tully

Most people past college age are not atheists. It's too hard to be in society, for one thing. Because you don't get any days off. And if you're an agnostic you don't know whether you get them off or not. — Mort Sahl

My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd. — Chuck Palahniuk

sometimes love isn't enough — Cassandra Clare

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years. — Andy Serkis

Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything. — B.K.S. Iyengar

It doesn't really matter in the end. Most people I talk to don't take writing seriously. If I tell them I'm an aspiring author, they get that "yeah right" look on their face, which is usually followed by "good luck with that. — Karina Halle

In the end, I find my influences or inspirations where I can. — Lana Del Rey

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth. — Robert Frost