Infolge Duden Quotes & Sayings

I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat. — Anthony Hopkins

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements. — Walter Kirn

He ran for his toilet to throw up, but he didn't make it that far. — J.R. Ward

What if I choose the dream instead? — Libba Bray

both her secret life and her despair lay in the same inner chamber of her heart, inaccessible to me. — Julian Barnes

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them. — Al-Waleed Bin Talal

I think that if you don't think we're in a war that you can't win the war. — George W. Bush

Authority is essential to society, but what we called in King Lear "transcendental" authority, with an executive ruler on top, depends on the ruler's understanding of equity. If he hasn't enough of such understanding, authority becomes a repressive legalism. Legalism of this sort really descends from what is called in the Bible the knowledge of good and evil. This was forbidden knowledge, because, as we'll see, it's not a genuine knowledge at all: it can't even tell us anything about good and evil. This kind of knowledge came into the world along with the discovery of self-conscious sex, when Adam and Eve knew that they were naked, and the thing that repressive legalism ever since has been most anxious to repress is the sexual impulse. — Northrop Frye

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. — Abba Eban

If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself. — Stella Adler

She simply cannot let go of love- and who can blame that? Is it not the hardest thing in the world to relinquish, once you have it? — Jude Morgan