Kino Der Toten Character Quotes & Sayings

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

They start again as children - all together. It is what the Composer was designed to prevent. — Greg Bear

Seeing David was a full-body experience. I felt heavy and light at the same time. He gives me butterflies, but they aren't butterflies. They're bigger and darker and scarier, like crows. They're dangerous. And did Bill ever give me butterflies? — Jessica Hawkins

If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage. — Ronald Reagan

I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way is to stop work in the middle of a sentence. Then you know exactly how to continue the day after. — Henning Mankell

We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid. — Robert Reich

When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As a writer, I don't want people spending time thinking, "What does she mean?" I want, in a way, my text to go away. So that the words on the page become a door to one's own internal investigation. It's just a passage. If the work does its job, it just opens. — Claudia Rankine

Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have been wearing blue and white shirts. — Mickey Drexler

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things. — Edna O'Brien

The soft airs of spring blew through the sketch into that sordid chamber, and for the beating of a pulse you were in touch with the eternal — W. Somerset Maugham