Plessner Helmuth Quotes & Sayings

Nobody ever cares what I say! I feel badly about it, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. — Marnie Stern

It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester] — Owen Hatherley

It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America. — Jefferson Davis

It's work, son," Father said. "That's what money is; it's hard work. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Why do magazines do this to women?" Miranda complains now, glaring at Vogue. "It's all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what?"
"What?" I ask, picking up the grocery bag.
"Men win. That's how they keep us down," she concludes.
"Except the problem with women's magazines is that they're written by women," I point out.
"That only shows you how deep this thing goes. Men have made women coconspirators in their own oppression. I mean, if you spend all your time worrying about leg hair, how can you possibly have time to take over the world? — Candace Bushnell

I did it by myself, but I didn't do it alone. — Alexandra Silber

I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground. — Rufus Sewell

It would be revealed years later that the language had been lifted almost verbatim from an ad that had appeared in the New York Times and other papers over the names of isolationist congressmen, written and paid for by Nazi agents. — Richard Moe

She, for her part, was accustomed to my leavings and didn't complain too much. But she still felt about me what she'd always felt, which was what I wouldn't really feel about her until after she was gone. "I hate it when Daylight Savings Time starts while you're here," she told me while we were driving to the airport, "because it means I have an hour less with you. — Jonathan Franzen

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. — Lee Konitz

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn't understand it then, but now, now I understand it. — Paul Auster

Be grateful for small mercies. — Alexandra Adornetto