Geallieerden Quotes & Sayings

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it? — Yoko Ono

Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families. — Lynne Truss

Scientology, Buddhism, the Kabbalah ... if it makes people's lives better, and easier, then I'll do it. Why not? People scoffed at Christianity 2,000 years ago, didn't they? — Robbie Williams

Philosophy by showing - including philosophy in literature - does truly valuable work in leading us to new perspectives from which our arguments can then begin. It does so by introducing new synthetic complexes, which we then reflect on from various points of view. When the complexes survive and grow, that initial showing has been philosophically decisive. — Philip Kitcher

If I were to meet Cordelia again, what would I tell her about myself? The truth, or whatever would make me look good?
Probably the latter. I still have that need. — Margaret Atwood

I have never written a novel yet ... without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again, and this after filling 400 words with notes, mostly delirious, before getting into anything in the nature of a coherent scenario. — P.G. Wodehouse

I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures. — Etgar Keret

Loyalty starts with a demonstration of respect and gratitude. — Chip Bell

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press. — Dale E. Turner