Irmtraud Morgner Quotes & Sayings

Planning is like "pointing yourself" in the direction of a target ... no more than that. Let your power then redefine the target, and re-point you in the correct direction. Think of it like this: An arrow is never going to hit the target unless it's in flight. If you sit around and wait for God to shoot the arrow, nothing is going to happen. — Lee Carroll

Be the ghost of the empty streets! You shall be crowned with the touch of great inspirations! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Are you meeting people?"
Yeah, she thought, you people.
"Not intentionally," she said. — Rainbow Rowell

Freedom would mean rest, artistic achievement, the intellectual fulfilment of my being. — Pessoa, Fernando

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy. — Gustavo Dudamel

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed. — James Buchanan

A demon was asking me what I wanted.
My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. "What do you want?" he said softly. — Kim Harrison

I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I've thought, 'Why don't I just act on that impulse?' But then, I've never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I've never hit anybody for fun. — Alan Alda

In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it. — Paul McCartney

Randal is a lad of about twenty and two, curly-haired and distressingly cherubic in appearance."
"Distressingly? Really, Northrup, I cannot see what could be distressing about a cherub."
His brows drew in a scowl. "They're baby angels, for God's sake." As if this explained all. — Kristen Callihan

Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase. — Ella T. Grasso

Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence. — Donald Hall

My shame circuits burned out from overuse years ago. — David Wong

You're completely natural only when you're one inch from bursting into pieces. — Ayn Rand

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature. — Irving Stone