Mechthild Holter Quotes & Sayings

And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to the roof of his mouth, where even the sons of the house have to go into the cornfield with the rickshaw boy to joke about whores and compare the length of their members and whisper furtively about dreams of being film directors (Hanif's dream, which horrifies his dream-invading mother, who believes the cinema to be an extension of the brothel business), where life has been transmuted into grotesquery by the irruption into it of history, eventually in the murkiness of the underworld he cannot help himself, he finds his eyes straying upwards, up along delicate sandals and baggy pajamas and past loose kurta and above the dupatta, the cloth of modesty, until eyes meet eyes, and then — Salman Rushdie

When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even predetermined for it. If someone is modest and does not yearn for power, he is certainly not ill-equipped to engage in politics; on the contrary, he belongs there. What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things. — Vaclav Havel

Why is she unconscious?" Aimee smirked. "She had a full-fledged freak out on the roof top. — T.L. Brown

The premise is prejudicial and proves that what's wanted here isn't a trial but a conviction. — Gregory Maguire

I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school. — Ryan White

There is nothing in this world that belongs to us in an absolute sense, — Jose Saramago

Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing. — Carl Jung

There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later. — Calvin Trillin

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves. — Thomas Paine

How could he love her when she'd destroyed so much? — Katie McGarry

Loving someone who hates
themselves
is a special kind of violence.
A fight inside the bones.
A war within the blood. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now. — Lara Flynn Boyle

It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city goes back and forth trying to figure out what programs to cut and what they have funding for. What I would love to see is for the city to step up and run the rink 10 months out of the year so kids can play in the summer and we can have camps here in Glenwood. — Bill Vaughan

Being famous is wicked but its cool to be normal as well. — Rupert Grint