Gunter Grass Peeling The Onion Quotes & Sayings

Power is the ability to control people or things. So, unless you learn to control your own self first, how would you be able to influence anybody else? Now, doesn't that apply to all of us? — Pulkit Patel

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience. — Jenny Holzer

A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because everything in the woods is exactly as it seems. — Angela Carter

The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we're not going to deal with it now, when are we going to deal with it? And we've watched the government explode over the last four years. We've dealt with the revenue issue. — Mitch McConnell

Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again."
"Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think? — James A. Owen

You're Ma's own blood son, but did she take on that time Tony Fontaine shot you in the leg? No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what ailed Tony's aim. Said she guessed the licker was spoiling his marksmanship. — Margaret Mitchell

Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with grater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices? — Anthony Trollope

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up. — Charles Olson

It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell. — Barbara Kingsolver