Gedrukt Johannes Quotes & Sayings

You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics. — Seth MacFarlane

I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character. — Anna Kendrick

At that point in my life, I was not looking for a career. I viewed my first decade after college as a time to explore. I didn't want anchors to hold me down. If something caught my attention, I would try it. If not, I would move on. — George W. Bush

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death. — Guy Sajer

Sometimes, when we're fixated on reaching the end, we miss the important things along the way. — Cameron Jace

I hate the corpses of empires, they stink as nothing else. They stink so badly that I cannot believe that even in life they were healthy. — Rebecca West

After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four. — Simon Hobday

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all. — Loretta Young

Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying. — Mary McGrory

I've done quite a lot of growing up in public, which has been tricky at times. — Jaime Winstone

Edith stared at the ceiling, contemplating the oddness of life. Here she was with this man, whom she hardly knew when she really thought about it, asleep, naked, beside her. She pondered that central truth, which must have struck many brides from Marie Antoinette to Wallis Simpson, that whatever the political, social or financial advantages of a great marriage, there comes a moment when everyone leaves the room and you are left alone with a stranger who has the legal right to copulate with you. She was not at all sure that she had fully negotiated this simple fact until then. — Julian Fellowes