Metzingen Quotes & Sayings

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated. — Jennifer Ehle

The sun was already long past the spire when Garrick purchased a mug of coffee from his regular man on the tip of Oxford Street. But his palate had been educated by 21st century coffee, and he judged this mug as bilge water not fit for the Irish. — Eoin Colfer

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. — Oliver Goldsmith

Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories. — Lucian Barnes

Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative. — Ronald Reagan

I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a fucking good-looking fuck you are.' And then I brighten up. — Liam Gallagher

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. — Richard Dawkins

She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first time, all over again. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

Calmly in the precious present, be a light for love and wisdom in the window on your world. — Kevin Flynn

Wouldn't if be nice if our government, could make things beautiful because everybody cares! — Robert Armstrong

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself. — Peter Drucker

During the selection process, if you come across something that does not spark joy but that you just can't bring yourself to throw away, stop a moment and ask yourself, "Am I having trouble getting rid of this because of an attachment to the past or because of a fear for the future?" Ask this for every one of these items. As you do so, you'll begin to see a pattern in your ownership of things, a pattern that falls into one of three categories: attachment to the past, desire for stability in the future, or a combination of both. It's important to understand your ownership pattern because it is an expression of the values that guide your life. — Marie Kondo