Sebald Vertigo Quotes & Sayings

I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring. — Joan Collins

There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain. — W.G. Sebald

I say God is the ultimate. — Donald Trump

That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy. We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. We were tinpan alleycats, but the gift of music had been withheld. We could not sing along, though we always knew the words. Still, defiantly, we roared our tuneless roars, we fell off the high notes and were trampled by the low ones. And if bitter ices were the consequence, well, there were worse fates in the world than that. — Salman Rushdie

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis. — Amiri Baraka

Shall Earth no more inspire thee,
Thou lonely dreamer now? — Emily Bronte

It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected. — Charles Darwin

So much of what I say gets sensationalized and journalists have to report on scandal because that's what people are hungry to read about. — Megan Fox

After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams. — James Boswell

A forest bird never wants a cage. — Henrik Ibsen

Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it. — Robert Plant

When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: "Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?" And a big soft gust of rain came down.
He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along. — Jack Kerouac

Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace. — Elon Musk