Gedachtengoed Quotes & Sayings

For it's a human and a good thing."
"What?"
"Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any. — Andrzej Sapkowski

Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity - civilization's backbone - that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized. And made of paper and ink, and thus they come from the earth. Their physicality is what makes them immensely human. And they contain the flesh-and-bone thoughts of one person capturing one blink of time, now made immortal in the bound pages carried by your own hands and touched by your own eyes. How can such fragile and thin paper and spidery veins of ink be our most precious treasure, binding together the entire hope and legacy and language of a civilization - of our existence. We touch the book and turn the page, and thus we are bound to our destiny. — Carew Papritz

For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail. — Mary Karr

Am I four years old? All I do is cry and say things are stupid.
I'm stupid. — Hannah Moskowitz

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery. — Gillian Flynn

As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action. — Emile Chartier

You need not fear, my love,
for never have the stars on high
told what they know. — Kahlil Gibran

Falling in love with the wrong person is easy. Falling in love with the right person is easier. But falling in love with your soul mate is easiest. — Mia Asher

The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror. — Karen DeCrow

I'm from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry. — Alex Karpovsky

When you present something that you have worked on to somebody else, for some reason that is the moment when you can see everything that you have done wrong. They may or may not agree, but it is more of a personal thing for me. It is that I am looking at it because you are self conscious and suddenly there is someone in the room that is seeing it for the first time. — Michael Giacchino

A gentleman holds my hand.
A man pulls my hair.
A soulmate will do both. — Alessandra Torre

Maybe your pregnant. Oops, hold on, you're not pregnant, on account of you're not gettin any. — Janet Evanovich