Juulia Turkkilas Birthplace Quotes & Sayings

When I sat up he was looking at me. His face was hopeful and unbelieving and also a little sad, and I wondered if it was anything like my father's face when he looked at my mother all those years ago at the Dead Sea, setting in motion a train of events that had finally brought me here, to the middle of nowhere, with a boy I'd grown up with but hardly knew. — Nicole Krauss

In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl. See how it looks in print - I translate this from a conversation in one of the best of the German Sunday-school books: "Gretchen. Wilhelm, where is the turnip? "Wilhelm. She has gone to the kitchen. "Gretchen. Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden? "Wilhelm. It has gone to the opera. — Mark Twain

Why not give it a go? Otherwise you will just be at home thinking about it. — Patrick Gregory

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy. — Kevin Spacey

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better. — Minor White