Frau Holle Quotes & Sayings

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to. — T. S. Eliot

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities. — Leon Kass

She had a problem, which meant they had a problem. — Starla Kaye

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes. — Adele

It's your life ... why not fill it with as much joy as possible? — Bonnie St. John

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world. — Don Dokken

It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars. — Mark Ruffalo

This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we attacked now, this minute, we had to keep on and on attacking until the enemy was run off his feet and the war was won. If we bogged down or paused for breath even for a second, we would be overrun again. — Lee Child

I think that my first impulse arises from a hypersensitivity or allergy. It seems to me that language is always used in a random, approximate, careless manner, and this distresses me unbearably. Please don't think that my reaction is the result of intolerance towards my neighbor: the worst discomfort of all comes from hearing myself speak. That's why I try to talk as little as possible. If I prefer writing, it is because I can revise each sentence until I reach the point where - if not exactly satisfied with my words - I am able at least to eliminate those reasons for dissatisfaction that I can put a finger on. Literature - and I mean the literature that matches up to those requirements - is the promised land in which language becomes what it really ought to be. — Italo Calvino

I never dreamed I'd be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I had to do in 30 seconds what it takes a whole feature to do and because the dysfunctional family of agents, managers and lawyers who represent me said it was cool. — Chris Eigeman

How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod. — William Shakespeare

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. — Susie Bright

When the people came to America they brought us with them. They brought me, and Loki and Thor, Anansi and the Lion-God, Leprechauns and Cluracans and Banshees, Kubera and Frau Holle and Ashtaroth, and they brought you. We rode here in their minds, and we took root. We travelled with the settlers to the new lands across the oceans. — Neil Gaiman

In addition to unfinished business, some ghosts haunt so that they will be remembered. — Donna Lynn Hope

Part of making TV is the process - you just have to churn it out. — Joss Whedon