Koenigsberg Quotes & Sayings

I've done a lot of casual work, and acting is a lot easier than laying carpets. — James Garner

We have treated television as if it is not a mass medium, and we have been rewarded in kind. — David Simon

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. — Haniel Long

For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all. — Kathe Kollwitz

Never say things to friends which you don't want to hear from enemies. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. — Naguib Mahfouz

The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest ... What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or in the Soviet Union, is rarely hostile to the institutions - the private business enterprise, the Communist Party - that reflect the dominant economic power. Not to notice this takes effort, although many succeed. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Alison's words were falling stones. Carole reached to grab them, to hold them, to put them in order. It was so hard, the stones so heavy. The words kept coming. Her daughter's face was before her, her lovely, dear face, and she could no nothing to help her. Not now, not while the voices were drowning her out, burying sense and decency and love. — Sonja Yoerg

I'm being careful with here, Harlow told me, apparently irritated by something I hadn't even had the time to say yet. She was making assumptions about my no-fun-at-all-ness. They were good assumptions. — Karen Joy Fowler

It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures. — Christopher Columbus

Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world. — Thomas F. Wilson

Most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we feel this attitude needs any sort of explanation. — David Graeber

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile. — Adelaide Hasse