Geibel Quotes & Sayings

After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann, and with the friendly support of Emanuel Geibel and Franz Kugler, I dabbled in all sorts of poetry. — Paul Heyse

In the spring of 1854, some of my publications persuaded King Maximilian II of Bavaria to offer me, at the suggestion of Emanuel Geibel, a position in Munich with an annual salary of 1000 guilders, to take part in his so-called symposia, weekly soirees at which scholars and poets were gathered. — Paul Heyse

Why does Kubrick always chill our blood, and make us huddled up scared stiff with eyes wide shut? Because even dead he's still "Shinnying" with his old hand and his eye-catching plots. — Ana Claudia Antunes

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe. — Cullen Hightower

I will do crazy skincare things in the kitchen ... I love coconut oil, so if I come home at night feeling all dry and like a fossil, I'll put my hand in a jar of coconut oil and just mush it over my face. — Suki Waterhouse

This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, cluttering the room like an attic with discarded possessions. — Anais Nin

Life's a gift. It doesn't always fit comfortably, but it's precious. I wouldn't have hurt you and your brothers by throwing mine away. — Nora Roberts

To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold. — Emanuel Geibel

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth. — Peter Biskind

Conquer all your fears and you'll be amazed at how awesome your life can become. — Joel Brown

Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back. — Stephen Burt

Being an adult comes with a whole new set of issues. — Melissa De La Cruz

Practice moderation in all things except love. — Gary Zukav

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas. — Mary Augusta Ward

And once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind — David Nicholls

Both space and time are metrically amorphous, i.e. they do not have - despite how strongly we believe so - an inherent metric which would allow us to measure them without any definitions. In this sense, thus, neither space nor time is absolute. — Felix Alba-Juez

True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best. — Emanuel Geibel

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. — Jacques Maritain