Kossmann Genealogy Quotes & Sayings

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors. — Norman Jewison

The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands. — Stacy Schiff

Be a gentleman, Lucas. No tying her up on the first date. — Melanie Harlow

Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step into another land and view its indigenous practices and beliefs through a local lens, instead of a telescope. — Nadia Hashimi

Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules. — Alice Miller

My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life. — Peter Cullen

I get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself. — Bauvard

Many many people find themselves wondering in their 40s and 50s, is this all there is? — Neale Donald Walsch

It's a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men die, and how middle-aged black men drop dead, and how black women are ravaged by HIV/AIDS. The numbers graft to poverty but they also graph to stresses known and invisible. How did we come here, after all? Not with upturned chins and bright eyes but rather in chains, across a chasm. But what did we do? We built a nation, and we built its art. — Elizabeth Alexander

But maybe those things are like background noise if you're from here. Maybe you have to experience this as a whole new place to appreciate it like I do. — Susane Colasanti

The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns. In this state you think no impediment can be large enough to interrupt your passion. The feeling spills beyond the object of your love to color the whole world. The mood is not unlike the mood of revolutionaries in the first blush of victory, at the dawn of hope. Anything seems possible. And in the event of failure, it will be this taste of possibility that makes disillusion bitter. — Susan Griffin

Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is. — Garry Shandling