Paludan Tingbjerg Quotes & Sayings

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time. — V.S. Naipaul

Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother. — Francois Rabelais

The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know. — Tobey Maguire

The miracle has passed me by; it has touched but not changed me; I still have the same name and I know I will probably bear it until the end of my days; I am no phoenix; resurrection is not for me; I have tried to fly but I am tumbling like a dazzled, awkward rooster back to earth, back behind the barbed wires. — Erich Maria Remarque

I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey. — Fran Lebowitz

Philosophy is the dance of conscience on a stage called the mind. — Debasish Mridha

We find paradise in every library and bookshop. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything blurred the days following Avery's passing. Their home in Georgetown filled with mourners and well-wishers before they even had a chance to make it home from the hospital. Avery had been well-loved and highly-respected by most everyone he came in contact with. — Kindle Alexander

What happens when you get older? Do you just forget everything before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget? — Patrick Ness

There are bones
waiting for names in the graveyards.
Even the sun above us is dying, one
landed repetition of light at a time. — Cecilia Llompart

In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways. — Amy Adams

The other farmers sympathised in principle, but they did not at first give him much help. At heart, each of them was secretly wondering whether he could not somehow turn Jones's misfortune to his own advantage. — George Orwell

There come a time, when good man must wear mask. — Johnny Depp