P Tschke Schwerte Quotes & Sayings

One feels almost laughably heavy-footed in pointing out that Mrs. Clinton's prim little book, It Takes a Village, proposes sexual abstinence for the young, and that the president was earnestly seconding this very proposal while using an impressionable intern as the physical rather than moral equivalent of a blow-up doll. — Christopher Hitchens

Only now, in rhythmic waves, was she struck by her stupidity, her blindness, her estheronautiness, and, above all, her longing, the insult of the power of her longing, and she knew very well that is was these shortcomings that had made her so eager to interweave in his story the threads of her secret dreams of candor and of painful, purifying honesty; of a generous togetherness in which everything was possible. For a moment, with all that had been spun and stabbed and defiled within her, her face took on the expression of a frightened, abandoned girl who lunges out to bite, who lives unimaginably close to the skin's surface, ready to be drawn out like a final plan of retreat. — David Grossman

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. — Don DeLillo

The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit. — Dwight Schultz

I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here. — Josh Kopelman

Are you afraid of getting hurt?" I asked.
"I'm scared of what's ahead for the person who will...he'll live for a time without my presence. It makes me think... Will I be able to endure just watching over him from wherever I'll be going? — Jessamine Verzosa

How now Mad Cow? — Libba Bray

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth. — Chapman Cohen

You can't just go and smash whatever you deem fit! — Valerie Gent

But Lucy, I've no money."
I put my face up to his and smiled.
He smiled back.
"Frankly my dear," I beamed, "I don't give a damn."
I had always wanted to say that. — Marian Keyes

All a rainbow is is light that walks behind a raindrop and its colors fall out. — Augusten Burroughs