Quellenverzeichnis Quotes & Sayings

Over the years
a great deal has to be thrown out.
The notion, for instance,
that happiness is mild and enduring,
something like a southern climate
instead of a bolt of lightning
that leaves scars
cherished a lifetime. — Hanny Michaelis

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs. — Kirsten Gillibrand

When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room. — Spalding Gray

How strange that he had kept this small amateur watercolor. She did not recall giving it to him. Did he not know it was by her hand? Perhaps he had stuck it into the volume to mark some place long ago and had completely forgotten about it, and when he found it later did not remember the artist was the very woman who had spurned him, the woman he despised. Surely he would not have kept it had he remembered. — Julie Klassen

Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done. — Bran Ferren

Working with special needs children is hard. — Laura Linney

The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power. — Jimmie Johnson

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are. — Lance Loud

Without direction, the respiratory technician goes to the head of the bed. She takes the tubing, attaches it to the oxygen, and turns it on as high as it will go. She provides a seal with her hand cupped over the plastic mask, over the nose and mouth of the toddler, and methodically provides oxygenated air. Doyle's tiny chest rises and falls while I listen with my stethoscope. I am reaching for another breathing tube.
"Fib!" Dr. Pedras feels for a pulse while another places gelled pads on her chest. — Ruth McLeod-Kearns

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway — Mother Teresa

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality. — John Gardner

They're the darkest people I know, comedians. — Jake Gyllenhaal

Regaining control of the gelding, Fiddler drove his heels into its flanks. They bolted forward, savagely riding down the group's generous leader. — Steven Erikson

Suddenly, he felt a tremendous stirring of hope inside his heart; it filled his whole body with its warmth. I may not be that much of a broken man, he thought to himself. — H. L. Balcomb

Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on. — Justin Cronin