Sonntag Nachmittag Translation Quotes & Sayings

Whether David believed in her affliction or not didn't change the fact that it existed, and some day it would catch up with her. — Tamara Hughes

What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stickout above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence
his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms
in short, his hereditary cowardice ... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies. — H.L. Mencken

But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. — J.K. Rowling

If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner ... "
"Yeah?"
"Please don't hesitate to get lost. — Douglas Adams

Today, to him gazing south with a new-born need stirring in his heart, the clear sky over their long low outline seemed to pulsate with promise; today, the unseen was everything. the unknown the only real fact of life. — Kenneth Grahame

Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person.
Franny was among the first of the girls to get off the train, from a car at the far, northern end of the platform. Lane spotted her immediately, and despite whatever it was he was trying to do with his face, his arm that shot up into the air was the whole truth. — J.D. Salinger

you think about it, being crazy isn't such a bad place to start when you need some novelty in your life. — Elgon Williams

The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it. — Patrick DeWitt

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me. — Shia Labeouf

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful. — John Barnes

Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him. — Gyorgy Ligeti