Erzahler Quotes & Sayings

I love how intimate I've become with failure. — Bob Hicok

One of the things that is very important to me is how I feel about my team. And not just what their jobs are but what they mean to one another. — Anne Sweeney

Piketty's crucial misstep is verbally converting a fluid process over time into a rigid structure, with a more or less permanent top one percent living isolated from the rest of society that is supposedly subjected to their control or influence. It is a vision divorced from demonstrable facts, however consonant it may be with prevailing preconceptions. — Thomas Sowell

Killer yuppies in a soccer-mom car. It did have that certain je ne said quois. — J. Fally

I want to make a movie that can grab people by the heartstrings. — Steven Seagal

When George Washington ran for election to Virginia's local assembly, the House of Burgesses, in 1758, his campaign team handed out twenty-eight gallons of rum, fifty gallons of rum punch, thirty-four of wine, forty-six of beer, and two of cider - in a county with only 391 voters. — Tom Standage

Chess is 99 percent calculation. — Andrew Soltis

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is 'The Brothers Karamazov.' — Charlie Trotter

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. — C.S. Lewis

The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty. — Michael Ignatieff

Failure can become nourishment if we are willing to get curious, show up vulnerable and human, and put rising strong into practice. (P.214) — Brene Brown

Today, fewer and fewer people, including fewer and fewer Christians, agree with Jesus on this matter. Poverty is increasingly seen as a technical problem amenable to intervention. It's common wisdom that policies based on the latest findings in agronomy, economics, medicine and sociology can eliminate poverty. And — Yuval Noah Harari

I purposely used a pretty cocky, abrasive writing style in Sex and Crime, to stir up some drama. My confrontational style quickly became the talk of the scene. Some of the things I wrote were so inflammatory, people had to vent about it on online forums. So suddenly everyone in the scene was talking about Sex and Crime, just as I had hoped. I enjoyed playing the role of agitator, and people from competing hacking crews didn't even realize that the more they bitched about the things I wrote, the more credibility and notoriety they were adding to my scene mag. Thanks to all the positive as well as negative feedback I was getting, the things I wrote actually mattered. Suddenly I was the most important opinion maker in the scene. — Oliver Markus