Frankfurt Parliament Quotes & Sayings

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books. — Cornelia Funke

I see the role of the writer as creating a room with big windows and leaving the reader to imagine. It's a meeting on the page. — Kevin Crossley-Holland

You've got sex hair ... or crazy cat lady hair. They're remarkably similar. — Molly Harper

we tend to put people into three buckets: people that we are sure we like, people we don't know if we like, and people we don't like. — Patrick King

I love the healing parable of Jesus and the blind man. As he went along he saw a man blind from birth, his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned? This man or his parents, that he was born blind?" "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life." We have been trained to think in terms of sin and punishment. These ideas disempower us by stressing that we are weak and wrong. The empowering way is to view trials as lessons and opportunities to choose differently. We can transcend the odious notion of being sinners cloaked in guilt, awaiting punishment. To access a spiritual solution to a problem involves focusing on the idea of a solution. — Wayne W. Dyer

I like to kill people in my dreams, so when I fall asleep be sure not to come too close. — Cao Cao

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or - and the outward semblance is the same - crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more. — Nathaniel Hawthorne