Marionetten Trauermarsch Quotes & Sayings

an exercise in the art of paying attention, and paying attention, Ferguson discovered, was the first step in learning how to be alive. — Paul Auster

You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage. — John Cornyn

[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I've never stayed in a tent or a caravan in my life, and I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't see the point of going on holiday to enjoy less comfort than I have at home. — Terry Wogan

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer. — Thomas Perry

Don't sell yourself to fall in love,
With those things you do ... — J Dilla

When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list. — Michelle Obama

As a means of subsidizing lawyers the present nuclear regulation system is well designed - but is there not perhaps a cheaper way of rewarding legal diligence? It would probably be cheaper to give each law school graduate a guaranteed salary of $50,000 a year on the condition that he (or she) not practice law. — Jerry Pournelle

The formula for the new public intellectual seemed simple enough: (1) develop a critical lens and then hold it up to whatever young people are interested in; (2) say something outlandish, seemingly at random; (3) through sophistry arrive at the radical conclusion you blurted out at the argument's outset. — Will Chancellor

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival. — Honore De Balzac

Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age. — Willa Cather

Women are always beautiful. — Ville Valo

When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that's not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects. — Ben Goldacre

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s. — John Cusack

Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river. — Samuel Johnson