Hollfelder Foundation Quotes & Sayings

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea. — Cecily Strong

Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise
the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in harmony, united by a single common will and faith, without secrets from one another. Andre Breton, too, dreamed of this paradise when he talked about the glass house in which he longed to live. If totalitarianism did not exploit these archetypes, which are deep inside us all and rooted deep in all religions, it could never attract so many people, especially during the early phases of its existence. Once the dream of paradise starts to turn into reality, however, here and there people begin to crop up who stand in its way. and so the rulers of paradise must build a little gulag on the side of Eden. In the course of time this gulag grows ever bigger and more perfect, while the adjoining paradise gets even smaller and poorer. — Milan Kundera

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that you're a beginner and throw you perfectly so that no harm will befall you. — Frederick Lenz

Fuck that person. Fuck them in the face.
With a cabbage. — Julio Alexi Genao

Earl Scruggs had this thing that it wasn't just the technique or even the instrument. It was him. There was this soulful quality that came through that made you - if you're somebody like me who was, I guess, supposed to play the banjo, it made you stop in your tracks, and you couldn't do anything until you got done hearing him play, and then immediately you'd have to go try and find a banjo. — Earl Scruggs

I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that's how I've felt about bands I love. — Marina And The Diamonds

I desperately want to simply love him - unequivocally and without reservation - the way I did back then ... — Taylor Jenkins Reid

The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle ... Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity. — Christina Stead

Holy hug is a soft kiss. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Since then, she had wondered if it were strength or a sort of madness that let her pretend she was normal. — Robin Hobb

All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her 'ear' - the understanding and recognition of musical elements - for guidance. — Steve Vai

I couldn't believe he was hitting me as we were falling. But that could've been because I was hitting him, too. — Veronica Rossi

Sinn Fein is the only political party on this island working to end that fracture in their nation and to achieving the Republic set out in the proclamation. — Martin McGuinness