Furcht Quotes & Sayings

All the same, they [young, twenty-somethings] can't help feeling that the aged and even the infirm have somehow elected that condition ... or have as it were been assigned those roles ... so that they ... can play their youthful-energetic, all but immutable selves. — John Barth

Even if you weren't born with a genetically perfect body, you can take something like a hand, where everyone has the same capabilities, and you can make it speak. You can make it speak in many different ways. — Sarah Lamb

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment. — Laurence Sterne

The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge. — Colin Mochrie

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night. — Yanni

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life. — Peace Pilgrim

When I cry it's not because of one thing, it's all the built up emotions that I've been trying to hold in for weeks — Tina J. Richardson

The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?) — Edward Abbey

A fourteen year old to steal my virginity on the moor and rape me till I come. — Sarah Kane

Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later. — Dani Shapiro

War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing. — George W. Bush

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece ... you can't walk away from that. — Rob Reiner