Struwwelpeter Quotes & Sayings

Going to a movie so you won't be offended is like eating potato chips made with Olestra; you avoid the dangers of the real thing, but your insides fill up with synthetic runny stuff. — Roger Ebert

I was brought up in Zimbabwe, and there were seven of us in my family, so it was difficult to read aloud to us all. There weren't that many picture books around in the Fifties in Zimbabwe. My favourite was Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, which was really frightening. — Korky Paul

We are all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf or skydiving. What matters is when the red light comes on.
Jerry Seinfeld to Michael Richards in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. — Jerry Seinfeld

I felt like shit, but it was happy shit. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Germany is the Jew among nations. — Milton Sanford Mayer

We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will. — Barack Obama

I found her in the living room watching re-runs of Sons of Anarchy. I think she had a thing for Charlie Hunnam. — B.B. Reid

I wondered if this was how vampires felt, like they'd lost their humanity and could never get it back. The scientists had practically turned me into a vampire. Only a monthly shot of liquid blue prevented that from happening. — Nikki Jefford

This argument is not the barrel of drugged trout that Methodological Descriptivism was, but it's still vulnerable to objections. — David Foster Wallace