Fragen Nach Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really. — Guy Gavriel Kay

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there. — Bill Gates

Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up. I think in a book, in any book, you can have a reactive character. Some of the great novels of all time have had that, but in a film you can't do that. — Melissa Rosenberg

Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't exist. — Chris Colfer

Maybe it wasn't that he didn't want to talk about himself before now, she thought guiltily. Maybe it's just that I wasn't interested in listening. — Cathy Hapka

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals. — Magic Johnson

She was ghastly and quite mad, but when I grew up I figured her worst punishment was to be herself and I didn't have to do anything more. — Edward St. Aubyn

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?] — Anne Bishop

I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever. — Bill Cosby

I'm not a huge jewelry fan. — Felicity Jones

Some day ... after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Brad is a natural - perfect boyfriend material - if only I swung that way. — Siobhan Davis

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant. — Thomas Paine

It's one of those scenarios you feel will never happen to you. Nobody thinks they're going to be the one, whatever, to get in a car wreck to have their, you know, their kids killed in a plane crash, whatever, you don't think those things are going to happen to you. And I didn't think that I'd be traded. So. — Bronson Arroyo

Wikipedia [ ... ] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation. — Clay Shirky