Pirschl Quotes & Sayings

No, don't hate them. It's not gonna do you any good to hate anybody. For all we know, they're worse off than we are. Just let it go. — A.L. Jambor

[On writing more Sherlock Holmes stories.] 'I don't care whether you do or not,' said Bram. 'But you will, eventually. He's yours, till death do you part. Did you really think he was dead and gone when you wrote "The Final Problem"? I don't think you did. I think you always knew he'd be back. But whenever you take up your pen and continue, heed my advice. Don't bring him here. Don't bring Sherlock Holmes into the electric light. Leave him in the mysterious and romantic flicker of the gas lamp. He won't stand next to this, do you see? The glare would melt him away. He was more the man of our time than Oscar was. Or than we were. Leave him where he belongs, in the last days of our bygone century. Because in a hundred years, no one will care about me. Or you. Or Oscar. We stopped caring about Oscar years ago, and we were his bloody *friends.* No, what they'll remember are the stories. They'll remember Holmes. And Watson. And Dorian Gray. — Graham Moore

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though. — Tom Jenkinson

As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome. — Patrick DeWitt

The only word for love is everybody's name. — Dar Williams

The dark is your friend, isn't it? When you turn on the light, it makes the dark your enemy ... and it glowers in at you resentfully. — L.M. Montgomery

To begin with, we need to promote greater confidence building measures. This is important in view of the military modernization and growing defense spending that are taking place in many countries. — Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto. — Drake

The number of small businesses in the United States totals about 25 million. Because most of these have a local trading territory, relatively few advertise online. Online advertising reaches the masses of the Internet world, whether they are local or not. — Marc Ostrofsky

It's naivety to think that we can just change someone's lifetime belief system using some casual conversations. It cannot happen! — Assegid Habtewold

Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos. — Harold Edward Holt

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse. — Albert Ellis

Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. — Maxwell Maltz

If we don't get violent with ourselves, castigate ourselves, ostracize ourselves and excommunicate ourselves because we didn't live up to the standards we set down for ourselves, then maybe we don't have to do that with other people. — Frederick Lenz