Miep Gies Book Quotes & Sayings

How dearly, indeed, I loved my pit, my dusky room, the area of my desk with its piles of books! How I enjoyed introspection, shrouded myself in cogitation; with what rapture did I listen for the rustling of frail insects in the thickets of my nerves! — Yukio Mishima

It is entirely correct and completely in order to say, "You can't do anything with philosophy." The only mistake is to believe that with this, the judgment concerning philosophy is at an end. For a little epilogue arises in the form of a counter-question: even if we can't do anything with it, may not philosophy in the end do something with us, provided that we engage ourselves with it? — Max Van Manen

Whether a man favors crepes and classical or cornbread and country, the complexities of life are all the same.
-The Rabbi- — J. Frank Dunkin

I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along. — George Martin

To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs. — Bernie Siegel

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory. — Anna Gunn

There is really no crisis except an artificial one ... If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end. — Abraham Lincoln

There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far allow to state, as I said before, that the great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain. — Paul Broca

No one looks or feels attractive when angry. — Allan Lokos

I get very upset when people start adding weird things to romesco. — Jose Andres