Spitzweg Paintings Quotes & Sayings

The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint. — Henry James

I like to give you pleasure & I like to give you pain. I like for your entire existence to be under my thumb — Renee Rose

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China. — Steve Forbes

But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them. — Charlie Kaufman

As the psychologist Carol Gilligan has written, "Women's sense of integrity seems to be entwined with an ethic of care, so that to see themselves as women is to see themselves in a relationship of connection. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. — W. H. Auden

There's a good feeling about them. It's something I like to find in fiction. So many writers master form and technique, but get so little feeling into their work. I think that's important. — A. Scott Berg

Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music of the night. — Charles Hart

I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice, — Walt Whitman