Katharina Blum Quotes & Sayings

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Many people come and go,
knowing not why they ever did so.
A miserable thing can it be -
unconscious of why thy Creator made thee. — James Bergson

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues. — Billy Collins

Mental nausea of daily squash
flabby cauliflower
and grease dripping slick and sheepish
onto the placid plate of mind. — Sylvia Plath

Lewis began to realize that atheism did not - and could not - satisfy the deepest longings of his heart or his intuition that there was more to life than what was seen on the surface. — Alister E. McGrath

The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation. — Phyllis McGinley

Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife's favorite - he'd driven all the way from New Jersey to buy it because today was their anniversary. Several women in the store jabbed their husbands on hearing this. I hung my head - Peter Terris wouldn't cross the street to buy me a Twinkie. — Joan Bauer

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie. — Helen McCrory

Just because death would eventually separate us, that didn't mean it would destroy what we had. I am forever yours, in this life or the next. Some things could penetrate even the formidable barrier of death, and love was one of them. — Jeaniene Frost

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus. — Jack Canfield

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Caring about someone, it's never easy. Seeing past their imperfections; the things you don't necessarily like, it speaks to the size of your heart and the person you are. That can never be wrong. — Melyssa Winchester

In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines for curing dyspepsia shows that people are suffering from this disease. In this country we know that there are so many kinds of pills and medicines used. We even have those in India now. These things show that not only in America but in all the countries of the world we have to recourse to artificial means for necessary nutrients because people are not aware of right rules of diet. It is better to follow the right rules of diet in the beginning in order to avoid any kind of artificial medicines later on. — Virchand Gandhi

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. — Laurence J. Peter