Offensichtlich Englisch Quotes & Sayings

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories. — Hannah Kent

I just want to come and sit on your front porch and drink mint juleps. — August Wilson

Word of advice. These have a kick, so don't suck too hard -
Holy hypoxia, Batman. — J.R. Ward

It smelled delicious but tasted of jealousy. — Katie Graykowski

I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think? — Andrew Sullivan

Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren't we talking more about that? — Maggie Nelson

I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody. — Daniel Craig

The tall monk who came striding down the shadowed monastery corridor was surprisingly young, barely thirty. As he swept past the novices, his dark robe flapping wildly around his legs, they bobbed their heads in fearful deference. — Michelle Frost

We sense this, we aggregate that, we compress information to some new output, in the form of a sentence in a human language, a language called English. A language both very structured and very amorphous, as if it were a building made of soups. A most fuzzy mathematics. Possibly utterly useless. Possibly the reason why all these people have come to this pretty pass, and now lie asleep within us, dreaming. Their languages lie to them, systemically, and in their very designs. A liar species. What a thing, really. What an evolutionary dead end. — Kim Stanley Robinson