Irmtraud Cowell Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative. — John Lydon

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked. — Raymond Chandler

Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death. — Darren Shan

Don't," she said to her brother.
"What?"
"Don't act like I'm dead already. I, for one, am not giving up. — Melissa De La Cruz

No, sweetheart, you don't understand," Noc declared, striding through the door and into the
hall. "They didn't get it. Now they'll get it. — Kristen Ashley

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays. — Jerome Kern

You haven't missed me for one fucking minute. You have never for one single second in your entire pathetic fucking life missed me. You might have missed fucking with my head, and you might have missed the satisfaction you so clearly got from demolishing me, but those are your emotions you're missing, not mine. I'm afraid I can't help you. — David Levithan

Freedom is uncertain, because it is up to you to decide. — Adam Vether

Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing at one here, reading a page from one over there, enjoying them all as objects to be touched, looked at, even smelt, is a deep satisfaction. And often, very often, while browsing haphazardly, looking for nothing in particular, you pick up a volume that suddenly excites you, and you know that this one of all the others you must read. Those are great moments - and the books we come across like that are often the most memorable. — Aidan Chambers

In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution. — A.J. Darkholme

Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters. — George Weigel

The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them — Noam Chomsky

Everything is really something else in disguise. Of course she was no exception, she reminded herself. Everybody would assume that she was there as the Childersins' novelty pet, or as a Perfume-detector. Nobody would guess that she was there to look for the person who had stolen her history. — Frances Hardinge

We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking. This decides what shall take place in our lives. — Ernest Holmes

Once and for all, there is a great deal I do not want to know. - Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche