Germanenherz Quotes & Sayings

If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going to win that award, or are you going to get into this graduate program, you're blocking the light, and the light is that guidance and love we get when we open up our hearts and are guided by our higher selves, or God, or the Buddha Lupe [Buddha and the Virgin of Guadalupe fused together, as they are in the tattoo on Sandra's right arm], or whatever you believe in, or love. — Sandra Cisneros

My thoughts jumbled together, but I remembered that one was not supposed to make eye contact with royalty; or was that mad wolves? — Bethany Canaan

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive — Ronald Reagan

Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions. — Bill Watterson

Sex is a sideshow in the world of the animal, for the dominant color of that world is fear. — Robert Ardrey

I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs. — Eve Hewson

She wore her ferocity like armor, and it was purely asexual armor. Liraz was untouchable and untouched. — Laini Taylor

Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps. — Ambrose Bierce

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again? — E.L. Konigsburg

My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it. — Italo Calvino