Sveinn Eggertsson Quotes & Sayings

Looking on oneself as something alien, forgetting the sight, remembering the gaze. — Franz Kafka

In the past when I was younger my friends and relations had known what to do with me: some of them used to advise me to volunteer for the army, others to get a job in a pharmacy, and others in the telegraph department; now that I am over twenty-five, that grey hairs are beginning to show on my temples, and that I have been already in the army, and in a pharmacy, and in the telegraph department, it would seem that all earthly possibilities have been exhausted, and people have given up advising me, and merely sigh or shake their heads. — Anton Chekhov

I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess. — Heinrich Himmler

I'm frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going. — Melina Marchetta

I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency. — Robert Paul Weston

Whereas the consolations of religion are mainly personal, the burdens are social and political as well as personal. — A.C. Grayling

I'm madly in love with a sculpted piece of testosterone wonder called Haddock — Rae Earl

The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence — Anirban Bose

Do good when you remember, and what you forget will be revealed to you; and do not surrender your mind to blind forgetfulness. — Syncletica Of Alexandria

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image. — Herbert Bayer

He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. — Charlotte Bronte

WHOEVER TALKS ABOUT WHAT DOES NOT CONCERN HIM, OFTEN HEARS WHAT DOES NOT PLEASE HIM! — Anonymous

When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners — George Karl