Lostau Germany Quotes & Sayings

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature. — Sherman Alexie

Because the way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside -" Harry put a hand over his own heart, in the anatomically correct position, then paused and moved his hand up to point toward his head at around the ear level, "- is that they hurt when they see their friends hurting. Someone inside their circle of concern, a member of their own tribe. That feeling has an off-switch, an off-switch labeled 'enemy' or 'foreigner' or sometimes just 'stranger'. That's how people are, if they don't learn otherwise. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Ife onye metalu' ['what a man commits'] - a statement unclear and menacing in its very inconclusiveness. What a man commits ... Follows him? Comes back to take its toll? Was that all? No, that was only part of it ... The real burden of that cryptic scripture seemed to turn the matter right around. Whatever we see following a man, whatever fate comes to take its revenge on him, can only be what that man in some way or another, in a previous life if not in this, has committed. That was it! So those three words wrapped in an archaic tongue and tucked away at the tail of the bus turn out to be the opening segment of a full-blooded heathen antiphony offering a primitive and quite deadly exposition of suffering. The guilty suffers; the sufferer is guilty. As for the righteous, those whose arms are straight, they will always prosper! — Chinua Achebe

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem

Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door. — John Wayne

There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get a fairytale, a kind of story with hopelessness in it.
I believe there is something in these old stories that does what singing does to words. They have transformational capabilities, in the way melody can transform mood.
They can't transform your actual situation, but they can transform your experience of it. We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable. — Lynda Barry

You're the only one I kiss goodnight. — Angela Morrison

Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much. — Max Walker

Life is a JOURNEY, not a Stroll — Fela Durotoye

Get over it people, I worked my ass off. — Phil Heath

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man. — Bradley Cooper

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together. — Steve Carlton

My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so. — Nigel Hamilton

I was blind to the truth. Emotions do that. They make you a fool. — Kate Avery Ellison