Kiderlen Quotes & Sayings

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself
and not a taper lighted at the hearthstone of the race, which pales before the light of common day. — Henry David Thoreau

I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do, I start to fix it, and I never get past the first sentence. — Charles Krauthammer

When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing. — Joe Sacco

Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go. — Naomi Watts

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life. — Orhan Pamuk

Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all. — Namsoon Kang

My father had a similar saying. He said that in heaven there's a huge cake reserved solely for married people who've never once regretted getting married. The cake's never been touched. — Bernardo Atxaga

In 'Se7en' and 'Fight Club,' Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Zodiac, his way of clarifying the many clues in a murder thriller. As he showed in 'The Social Network,' the director also knows that no wound is more toxic than a friend's betrayal. — Richard Corliss

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. — John Boyle O'Reilly

I am the star in the night sky. I am the blade in the twilight. I am the god, the glory. — Pierce Brown

I was talking to my friend who's Israeli and she said that from the moment you're born, you're taught to hate the Palestinians. That's it. That's your life. That's what you learn from day one. — Jill Soloway

I wish that life could be carefree, sunny, never cloudy- But you said that I would be in Your arms when things get crazy- so when the storm doesn't go away- I have decided to sing in the rain. — Moriah Peters

comes, when it comes. This is huge. — Fred Davis

A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of bringing on its lips the word "law". It is like prescribing a punishment for adultery after raping the country. It is like saying that Holy Quran is suspended nobody can escape from the Hadees. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle. — Henry Ward Beecher