Gestern Nachmittag Quotes & Sayings

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say. — Joyce Carol Oates

I love being with someone, taking care of someone. — Marian Seldes

The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force. — Jean Cocteau

Don't look back once, the entire time I'm talking to her. But I can feel his eyes on me all the time. Like sunshine. — Sophie Kinsella

I have such an eclectic taste in music. Come to a backyard BBQ at my house, and I will run the gamut from Skynyrd to Sinatra to '90s grunge, rap, R&B, and classic rock. I have issues. If I had to pick one, I love this country artist named Craig Morgan. His music and his songs are so relatable and tell such vivid stories. — Mike Vogel

You're watching me, princess." His soft lips spread into an appreciative smile.
"People might get the wrong idea."
"What, that I actually like you now?" I tease.
He shakes his head and leans toward me. "No, that you're trying to see past me to get an eyeful of Benson."
I shift my gaze to the board and fix an innocent look on my face.
"What makes you think that's the WRONG idea?"
Quince leans even closer and says, "Because you came back for me. — Tera Lynn Childs

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer. — Paula Vogel

The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life. — Pythagoras

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. — Michelangelo Antonioni

If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn't had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England. — Michael Owen

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise? — Catherine Zeta-Jones

Eventually, all companies are replaced. — Bill Gates

The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene. — Michel De Montaigne

Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. — Alexander Pope

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham. — Jim Crace