Miezekatze Quotes & Sayings

Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison. — Blaise Pascal

Sacred solitude; reading, wondering and writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Think of a single word. We'll use soul as our example. How do you define soul? Is it the same definition I use? Can it ever be it? My soul is not your soul. Our souls, our definitions, are shaped by the singular and cumulative experiences in our lives, the emotional weight we attach to a concept forever locked in the space behind our own eyes. — Chris Kluwe

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen. — Erik Hersman

I garden. It's very relaxing to me. — Siri Hustvedt

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces! — George Sweeting

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them. — G.K. Chesterton

Remember to get the weather in your damn book
weather is very important. — Ernest Hemingway,

A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories. — Richard Branson

I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to. — Sophie Okonedo

The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron. — Pieter Zeeman

The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose - to destroy it. — Sergey Nechayev

I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be. — Anne Enright